For a movie fan, one of the services that is a big boon is Netflix. There were speculations earlier in the year that the Netflix service could be offered to the Xbox 360 gamers. Now analyst Michael Pachter has stated that Xbox 360 gamers who are Netflix consumers could get streaming online content.
Michael Pachter is an analyst with Wedbush Morgan. He explained in a note to investors, “As we have speculated in the past, we believe that one of Netflix’s partners is Microsoft. We arrive at this conclusion based upon Netflix management repeatedly mentioning ‘Internet-enabled video game consoles’ (at the event0. While there are three such consoles, only one (Microsoft’s Xbox 360) has a sufficiently large installed base to make sense from a streaming partnership with Netflix.”
He later added, “The competitive advantage of such an alliance is clear: Netflix customers who are Xbox Live members will have the ability to stream online content through their Xbox 360s directly to their televisions. The ability to do so is available without the Xbox 360, but requires a measure of technological sophistication and a high tolerance for failure.”
Microsoft as well as Netflix are keeping quiet about this and indicated that they do not comment on rumors and speculations. But there is a huge possibility that the Netflix service could be offer on Xbox Live as Microsoft has previously made a lot of content available on their online service, right from anime and cartoons to movies.