| ▲ | mjr00 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There's some stuff that, culturally, I don't think Amazon will ever do well. Amazon Games should be shuttered entirely. Their latest game was a really embarrassing flop; "King of Meat", which they expected to have 100,000 daily concurrent players, reached a max of 320 concurrents during a free weekend[0]. Have you heard of a single Amazon Prime Original Movie[1]? Likely only one -- 2025's War of the Worlds, which became a meme because it is legitimately one of the worst movies of all time. Amazon is built on a culture of doing the most boring, data-driven, predictable thing possible and executing well. Which is awesome when you're dealing with databases and the logistics of delivering packages. But it's effectively the opposite of games, movies and other creative media where you have to trust a single person or small group of people with a vision. Otherwise you get what Amazon gives, which is unappetizing slop. If I were Jassy I'd cut off these product lines entirely. It's just not a good fit for how Amazon operates. [0] https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/king-of-meat-studio-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_Prime_Video_ori... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | cobolcomesback 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That list of movies is just the movies that Amazon Studios has been the distributor for via Prime Video. Amazon didn’t necessarily produce or fund all of the movies in that list. It’s a bunch of cheap movies that are likely meant to be loss leaders for Prime Video subscriptions, which is something that very much does fit the style of Amazon. Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV all have a similar list of D-tier garbage just to fill their catalogs. On the contrary to your points, Amazon has put out some pretty solid and well received original series. The Boys, Gen V, Fallout, Reacher, Mr and Mrs Smith, Invincible, have all done really well if not been hits. Games is pretty trash though. I think they’re also going for a loss leader strategy there, but the platform they’re trying to promote (Luna) just isn’t there. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gerdesj 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Amazon is built on a culture of doing the most boring, data-driven, predictable thing possible and executing well." Quite. I remember when they started off flogging books in the '90s. I completely agree with you that trying to do "creative" is a bloody daft idea for a bunch of very efficient box shifters. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tayo42 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Fallouts been pretty good. Not sure what they did right there | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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