| Machiavellian said: This part we all can agree on that GP at this current date does not pay for itself, what we do not know is what do MS feel is a decent rate of subs each year to get out of the red. Only big companies like MS could even afford to do something on this level because they have the software, money and infrastructure to make it a reality. The goal is to get as many subs as possible, that would suggest keeping the price at a level for easy adoption while pumping out a diverse amount of content to keep the rate of adoption strong. I still do not have the numbers to make any educated guess. This is why I am not making any. I am not making any guess on the direction of the content, the quality or the amount because we are still way to early in the development of the service. Currently the developers who are under MS has gone on record saying that nothing has changed, they are in control of what they want to do so I would just take their word for it. I am sure if MS want to have games like the ones you describe, they can purchase studios that are good at making those types of games. Currently that does not seem to be their direction. I stopped watching TV way before subs started and I highly doubt from my experience subs has anything to do with the quality going down. Not sure why the 2 would be related to be honest. TV shows from the network do not go directly to subs and if so the networks still make a killing in advertisements etc. Instead a sub is just another delivery method and if quality has gone down its because of bad quality on those shows. |
Fragmentation is my guess (TV quality going down). And maybe also pampering to a global audience instead of more focused on local tv market? It's not just another delivery method, it's a fragmented delivery method. Which tbh already started when cable providers began with different packages, add-on channels etc.
I grew up with 2 national tv channels, plus access to another 12 or so foreign ones. The big thing back then was the overview channel, 16 boxes on one screen where you can instantly see what's on. One scrambled, the porn channel, which required a decoder. I wouldn't even know where to begin to count how much choice there is nowadays.
Hopefully gaming stands the times better!
