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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Japanese distributors have tried lowering prices from time to time, but the demand for anime is simply too inelastic for that to help. (Inelastic demand means that sales don't increase enough to compensate for the lower price.) Streaming and piracy enable people who want to watch a show but not own it to do so via both legal and illegal methods. That shrinks the disc market to collectors who are less price-sensitive. I'm pretty sure the pricing strategies used by Aniplex USA and Pony Canyon USA operate on this premise, too.
Japan has been less accepting of streaming than the West. Has that changed recently? Do we have any numbers on Japanese streaming subscribers like those Crunchyroll reports?
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Well, BD buyers usually will be more hardcore fans but if you are going to look at it as a whole, then isn't ad revenue going to make up more of the income (not counting multimedia merchandise and stuff) since most viewers actually watch off TV or Nico?