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thismeintiel on 07 September 2018
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WolfpackN64 said:
thismeintiel said:

Oh yea, I'm sure Disney was laughing when TLJ performed worse than the lowest of expectations and led to a sharp decline in merch sales.  Bet they laughed all the way to the bank when they had to take out $100M+ to cover the loses of Solo, the first ever SW flop.

Whatever belief helps you sleep at night buddy.

Oh, I sleep fine in this thing we like to call reality.  Not sure why you need to live in this contextless world where TLJ 100% met Disney's expectations, even though by every measure it did not, and the SW franchise is fine, even though it just had its first flop in its 40+ years of being, to sleep well.  But, hey, different strokes.

Faelco said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

 

I'm not saying it's even the main factor in the difference of sales, but The Last Jedi is on Netflix, has been for a long time, and The Force Awakens isn't. 

I wouldn't be surprised if there was indeed a correlation, but an opposite one. TLJ numbers are lower than the previous one and lower than expected, so they had to sell the right to Netflix to get as much money as possible out of it (and pretty early too). They didn't need Netflix' money for TFA apparently. Or since the numbers are bad, the streaming rights are cheaper than TFA, and that's why one is on Netflix and not the other. 

Shh, no.  Don't tell it like it is.  TLJ was a complete success and Disney is in no way trying to get as much cash from it since its sales didn't live up to expectations. 

Interesting to note that on Amazon Prime, to buy TFA is $20 after being out for 2 years.  TLJ? $11 after a few months.  Same for Youtube Movies.  Says all you need to know about its performance.