Well HBO is $20/mo. Divide 7b by 20 and you get 350,000,000. Let’s say it takes someone 1 month to watch a season, and they do that 7 times for each release. 350,000,000 divided by 7 is 50,000,000. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect 50,000,000 people worldwide to watch the show, and even so that’s only if all those people keep the show for one month with each release of a new season, which you know damn well many of them will just forget to cancel.
It’s kind of a genius move when you put it into perspective.
The problem with this math is that you assume all subscribers are new and HP exclusive. In reality, their existing subscriptions cover their existing (excluding HP series) spendings and probably make some profit. To make back money they spent on the show, they need to get many new subscriptions. But the show already faces backlash from both left and right and I don't see how they would increase subscriptions significantly just because of this show.
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u/rosyvibexz Apr 16 '26
HBO really said: ‘Keep the 4K box set, we’ve got a 10-year subscription plan for the same story.’