Within the next five years Activision may release videogame movies based on cut-scenes from within their games, citing Starcraft II's lengthy cut-scenes as an example of what could be acheived.

Activision head, Bobby Kotick, spoke during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California where he said that the company could charge between $20-30 to gamers who download the footage.

"If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences - for whom we have their credit card information and a direct relationship - and say to them, 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?'... and say we have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $30 or $20 price point, you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," Kotick said.

He then went on to say that could well happen within the next five years.

"Within the next five years you are likely to see us do that... There will be a time when we capitalise on the relationship that we have with our audience and deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of through theatrical distribution."

Aren't cut-scenes part of the game that we already pay for?