I think this is where things breakdown in your argument. Yes D+ should have had more "new" content ready to go at launch, how much new content is debatable, but I'll agree some more should have been available. But to say that only Mandalorian was the "highly anticipated" show is false. The entire vault of Disney programs were "highly anticipated", especially those that had been locked up in the vault for years, or decades in some cases.
Exactly, too many around here want to make it seem like D+ is void of content when its clearly not.Here are the original D+ content:
List of Disney+ original programming - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Not earth-shattering, but it's not nothing. Also, doesn't include content developed apart from Disney, but is exclusive to D+, like Hamilton and Black is King.
New-ish tittles are all the Disney movies (including Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilms) that came out last year and were skipping other streamers to be on D+ exclusively. I hear some of those movies are quite popular.
Not to mention all the Disney and Fox properties which once were on other carriers, but are reverting to D+ including family-friendly Fox films.
The "what's new on D+" list for each month is not meager. But it does include a lot of stuff already seen in theaters and stuff that adults may not be interested in.
I don't really see what difference it makes at this point if they had one marvel series ready to go at launch. Ok you still have a pandemic in march. Having one marvel series in the can in November means by feb series is over. Your still at the point you are right now kept you had a marvel series. I don't think that makes any difference longterm at all. This is all 20/20 hindsight due to pandemic. Having one Marvel series ready at launch would have been cool no doubt. And you may have got some more initial subscribers. But heck they had like 10 million first week regardless. Oh well its a moot point. It didn't happen.
Their preparation involves than some sort of “being caught off guard” mindset. That’s not what I’m referring to.
I stand corrected on that one.
Oh I would love all this legacy stuff. I am sure there are pretty valid reasons for it not being released ( I don't know what those are). But ultimately I don't think the old stuff drives any subscriptions. Or any real numbers anyway.
True but in the end if Winter soldier gets released this week as planned then the rest of the marvel and Star Wars stuff( and other stuff) started pouring in over the next 9 months I don't think many people would have really cared or remembered the shallow spring and summer for new content. Lots of people talking about it now due to outside issues.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier is not going to be released this week. Nor this month.
It originally was scheduled to, I think that was the point the poster was trying to make. That had F&WS and W/V been released as originally intended all this talk about "no content" would have died down and been moot. But then the world changed, and we are where we are now.
That further reinforces my point that some of this content should have been in production well before they actually did. They aimed to have no marque series available from January to August. That’s pretty shoddy planning.