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IGN reports on some comments made by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick to attendees of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference about the idea that they could remove the cut-scenes from a game like StarCraft II and market them as a commercial movie. If that's not startling enough, then wait for the price point he mentioned, as he envisions selling such a "movie" for $20.00-$30.00. He says: "If we were to take that hour, or hour an a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?" Here's more: My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever.
Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. It might be in a partnership with somebody or alone, but there will be a time where we'll capitalize on the relationship we have with our audience; deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of theatrical distribution.
If we were to deliver a film digitally this way, I'd say an extremely high percentage would then go to the theater and watch it again.
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You know, this idea itself isn't too bad, but Bobby Kotick is being all Bobby Kotick all over it. You can't just stich together cutscenes from most games, you'd need to do some careful vid-capping and editing to make sure all the plot-relevant stuff that happens outside of full-on cutscenes gets in there, too, along with appropriate bits of gameplay to keep the pacing going well, decent cuts between shots, etc.
Straight-ripping the cutscenes and charging twenty bucks for it? No. Add it to the bonuses you get for buying your Uber Delux Mega Edition, or as free-to-non-second-hand-buyers DLC, and sell it sepretly at a much lower price point. In a simple video format that will play on my media player of choice (if not on a DVD) without DRM.
Example of how to do this right: Metal Gear Solid 3 - Subsistance. |
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