At the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications, and Entertainment Conference, Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has stated that he expects his company to start selling the cutscenes contained in videogames separately to users within five years. Kotick believes that the quality of cutscenes as found in games like Starcraft II are of such high quality that customers would be willing to pay for them separately. Rather than paying for an entire game, the company would edit together the cutscenes of a game into a full film and sell this film to users at a price of $20 to $30.

Kotick’s specific statements can be found after the jump.