Burek said: On a basic idea level, perhaps. But your math is still way off. 90% subscription attach rate? You know that there are more than 10% of console owners not even plugged into internet at all. Sony is happy beyond belief for reaching 50% rate on PS4, and that's with a small base of mostly core gamers. And if 50% of those don't find value in online gaming and up to 6 free games a month, surely there will not be 40% of them interested in movies. Also, most of those US based subscribers already subscribe to Netflix or similar services, which are accessible to them via many outlets outside the console. But, if you can adjust the math and make it worthwhile for both film studios and console manufacturers, you might have something to base your proposal on when you take it to Sony and MS. But be sure they will concentrate on math first and foremost, and legalities a distant second, so you can have no wavering in your financial structure. |
I know the atach rate thing is pretty high. I am just think of a situation when the system has become well established and as such represents a primary reason most people will even want a PS+/XBL subscription. Mind you, the service could also work just fine even if you aren't subscribed to PS+/XBL. Thinking about it, it would actually be all round better if it doesn't require you are subscribed to PS+/XBL. That way people already on a paid service wouldn't feel they are paying for yet another service.
I think it will be worthwhile for everyone. The consoel manufacturers get like 10c on every dollar of ad revenue. The studios don't have movies just sitting around in oblivion with no traffic. No one is tellin the user to pay $10/month or anything.
Keep in mind that these studios already do this with tv providers. they get ad revenue for making their movies available to tv providers. This is pretty much the same thing. Just that they stand to make a lot more on a per movie basis than the already existing business models.
Lets not forget the millions that are also already being lost with regard to piracy, with a system like this, you can literally kiss piracy good by.
Lastly, you will also be able to view on other devices, it will just work like how remote play works with the PS4/PSV. The console will stream the movie you have downloaded to it to any device you are where ever you are.
MoHasanie said:
Ah right. But then with this system, there is no way a movie can generate $50-$80 million in revenue.
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It actually can. If we want to go into details.....
Lets assume that 10,000 companies pay as much as $1000k for ad placement a year to sony. Thats $10,000,000,000 ($10B).
if $1 is allotted to every viewed movie, being that the end user at least sees all 4 ad slots. Then basically money will be dolled out based on how many users see an add slot/movie. Now everyone isn't going to watch everything. But if 20M people for any reason watch a particular movie, then that particular movie provider gets $20M from that $10B ad revenue pool. You are right though, movies will not generate $80M, but thats not because the money isn't there to give the content provider... its cause there most likely won't be up to 80M people itching to watch a most movies that are like 3-5 months old.