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Posted by getrich on 10/21/06 15:42
Joshua Zyber wrote:
> "Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:j56dna4I2PdbWKTYnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >> Well, the studio probably wants people to actually PAY for
> >> Spider-Man. No sense in giving that one away for free.
> >
> > Well, the point IS giving them away for free--As in, "First one's..."
> >
> > Very few 15-24's would have considered buying a DVD player before they
> > found out their PS2's played them, and nobody was even picturing the
> > PSP as a mini-player until studios tried to push UMD's on us....But
> > the fact that you could watch Spiderman on your PSP straight out of
> > the box, gave you the idea pretty quickly.
>
> Yes, but if you're going to give something away for free, better it be a
> moderately popular comedy that many people would probably watch if
> handed to them but otherwise have probably already forgotten about by
> now. Spider-man is something people might actually be willing to pay
> for.
In other words a throwaway demo, not meant to sell the system, but
meant to show the system off.
Ok, I can see Talladega fitting that. I had been thinking that the
movie was bundled with the system in order to generate more interest.
- Richard Hutnik
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