Yeah, but that was before weekly TV became more than just a string of squashes with the occasional angle development. SNME today isn't anything more special than the average TV show. Judging from the first two they've done, I'd say it actually means less.
Well, that's because the past two SNME's have been just lead in shows for WrestleMania 22 and I believe it was SummerSlam this past year.
With my formula, SNME would be replacing shows like Backlash, Judgment Day, and the like, and while building to the future PPVs would have PPV quality matches fit into two hours.
In other words...it'd be like the old school "In Your House" events...except on free TV and with commercials.
...we have 16 PPVs in 12 months.
SIXTEEN
And one of those months, one of the major PPVs (Royal Rumble) has a PPV mostly nobody cares about, New Year's Revolution.
That's a bit excessive to me.
My view on this is...if you make PPVs rarer, and don't give them major, non commercial interrupted matches that often, more people will be willing to buy the things, and we wouldn't have PPVs that are under 100,000 in buys.
In simpler terms...you build a higher demand for them.
But that's just how I view things.