Blockbuster Considers Games-By-Mail, Netflix Bashes Idea
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As I live in Canada, a market Netflix doesn't bother servicing, I don't care a whit about the competition. Blockbuster exists here and if they actually served their customers in the GWN with a mail service for movies and games they'd have NO COMPETITON!. ZIP.ca is still a nogo on games...
I think this will give them a boost, but a small one. The biggest problem is that if I take, say 3 weeks, to beat a video game, will I be going without my weekly movie for that time?
If BB makes it so you have one game and one movie out at a time, I think they could get a leg-up as people could consolidate their Netflix and GameFly into a possibly lower payment. Otherwise, I don't think it will do them any good.
If BB makes it so you have one game and one movie out at a time, I think they could get a leg-up as people could consolidate their Netflix and GameFly into a possibly lower payment. Otherwise, I don't think it will do them any good.
If Netflix was smart they'd buy Zip.ca and get and almost assuredly have an account with virtually every XBL Gold subscriber. Naw instead they try to stream HD capable movies to the Wii so owners can watch them in SD... It's almost as bad as the Hulu disease.Wandrecanada said:
If they also incorporated the Watch Instantly service type of thing, this would be enough to get me to consider moving from Netflix to Blockbuster. I'd say that Netflix is way wrong on this one, I'd love to get both from one service instead of having to have two subscriptions.
Wrong. I play all of my old PSX games on my PS3 all the time. FFVII, VIII, Crash Bandicoot, Jet Moto etc. Its just the PS2 games that have troubles, and thats because the environment for those to run in required both a emulation program, and a seperate processing chip. The processing chip was cut from the console in order to drop price.qbanknight said:
I've been a Netflix subscriber for about 3 years now, but if Blockbuster does this right, I might be switching over. It's just too convenient to be able to get both movies and games from the same source with no extra fee, rather than subscribing to two separate services.
The VP has a point, but he fails to notice that Madden isn't the only popular game. People are still buying Halo 3 and Modern Warfare despite their releases being over 2 years ago. People would still love to play old games that are diffcult to find and would gladly order from Blockbuster if they had them.
I haven't used Gamefly in years but I recall their turnaround time being pretty slow. I can see the appeal of the combined subscription as I don't think they even offer that in their stores. It's not going to make me switch from Netflix to Blockbuster, though, unless their movie rentals can top Netflix; specifically where new-releases are concerned. We waited months for "Couples Retreat" to hit our mailbox, it was forever in "very long wait" limbo. Same for some other new-releases, which my wife has been trying to circumvent using those Redbox rental kiosks. Only pain with those is having to go to and from them (and waiting behind the yokels who browse forever...know what you want, rent it, get out of the way!) ala the classic video-rental stores. Granted, renting games would probably make my kids happy...the more I type here the more I'm intrigued with BB's proposal. Might have to keep an eye on it, chat with the missus.
might just get a total access membership because it's a gamefly and a netflick in a combo
and now I feel that netflicks will try to merge with gamefly to compete
and now I feel that netflicks will try to merge with gamefly to compete
There's already a service that does this. It's called Gamefly.
Oh sure, I WISH they'd re-introduce, say, NES and Genesis games into their service, but I know they're not gonna.
Oh sure, I WISH they'd re-introduce, say, NES and Genesis games into their service, but I know they're not gonna.
Poor Blockbuster. I haven't rented a game since I was a kid. Nowadays I see no reason to rent games. I buy them, play them, and eventually sell them in exchange for another game. I feel sorry for Blockbuster because who goes to video store when you can rent movies at the grocery store or local fast food place. I don't think they can do much else besides close up all their retail outlets and jump into the online business with both feet. I can only imagine someone going to the video store out of loyalty and not out of common sense.
Uhhh...Gamefly?
http://www.gamefly.com/
That's what I use. Rent most FPS games. Because they're short.
They'll be beat on TWO fronts. Netflix and Gamefly. Kicking dey ass.
http://www.gamefly.com/
That's what I use. Rent most FPS games. Because they're short.
They'll be beat on TWO fronts. Netflix and Gamefly. Kicking dey ass.
Blockbuster: That sounds like a good idea.
Netflix: Hey! That's OUR multimillion dollar genius idea! F*ck off!
You can just smell the hypocrisy . . .
Netflix: Hey! That's OUR multimillion dollar genius idea! F*ck off!
You can just smell the hypocrisy . . .
