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Machiavellian on 12 October 2021
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Shinobi-san said:
Ryuu96 said:

Tbf to Netflix, their focus has always been TV-Shows more than movies while Disney is a movie studio first, Netflix has only fairly recently started to delve into big production movies and that's likely only because every movie company is now making their own streaming service so Netflix can no longer as easily get certain films into their service after their cinema release.

I think TV will continue to be their main focus and rightfully so, it simply makes more sense for them, while Disney and other companies will likely go back to timed Cinema exclusivity releases and stop doing day one launches into their streaming service after Covid is mostly dealt with.

I don't really care for the movie content anyway, I'm a TV Show guy now for the most part, Lol.

Yeah in my initial post I said that Netflix does amazing TV series. But I feel that the comparison does not fit as well as movies. 

Ultimately the subscription model has its limits, even for the biggest service like Netflix. If gaming companies are going to continue to push out AAA or AAAA games in a decent amount of time, I don't see how its sustainable for the subscription model to fund it.

That being said, not having a compelling gaming subscription service is also not feasible in the current climate.

What I wonder is how do you come by your numbers.  In other words you say its not sustainable but where are you getting the numbers to back it up.  Do you believe that all these companies going to sub models are just doing it for the fun of it.  Its not like MS does not know about the sub model, how it works and the profit margins since they sell multiple sub models with their products.  When gamers say they do not see how something will work is more to the point that they have no clue about the business and then rely on bias to front their opinion.  I have worked in multiple big business that do sub models and I can tell you that MS as a company would not put the whole company behind GP if the model was not sustainable.