StarCraft II has some beautiful looking in-game cutscenes, but would you pay to watch them after being edited into a standalone film? Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick certainly believes there’s a market for that sort of thing, even going so far as to say that he believes Activision could have the “biggest opening weekend of any film ever” with such a release.
Speaking earlier this week at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications, and Entertainment Conference (via Gamasutra), Kotick talked about the possibility of editing the in-game cutscenes from a game like StarCraft II into a movie and releasing it to fans digitally. He explained, “If we were to take that hour, or hour-and-a-half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences for whom we have their credit card information as well as a direct relationship and ask, ‘Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?’, my guess is that … you’d have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever.”
While it’s obviously years away and things could change between now and then, Kotick suggested a price of $20 to $30, which will undoubtedly strike many gamers as being far too much when cutscenes can be seen in-game for free.
