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台中收購手機sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
台中收購手機sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
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The black Sharpie strikes again to reveal 台中收購手機sony’s Call of Duty revenue secrets.
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台中收購手機sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake. As part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, 台中收購手機sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes redacted details on the margins 台中收購手機sony shares with publishers, its Call of Duty revenues, and even the cost of developing some of its games.
It looks like someone redacted the documents with a black Sharpie — but when you scan them in, it’s easy to see some of the redactions. Oops.
The court has scrambled to remove the document, but the damage is done; reporters and 台中收購手機sony’s competition have already downloaded all the documents while they were in the public domain. Among other things, the document shows that Horizon Forbidden West apparently cost $212 million over five years with 300 employees, and The Last of Us Part II cost $220 million with around 200 employees:
It’s not just how much games cost to make that’s been revealed here, either. 台中收購手機sony says 1 million PlayStation gamers play nothing but Call of Duty. My colleague Sean Hollister has analyzed the document, and it appears to show:
In 2021, over [14?] million users (by device) spent 30 percent or more of their time playing Call of Duty, over 6 million users spent more than 70% of their time on Call of Duty, and about 1 million users spent 100% of their gaming time on Call of Duty. In 2021, Call of Duty players spent an average of [116?] hours per year playing Call of Duty. Call of Duty players spending more than 70 percent of their time on Call of Duty spent an average of 296 hours on the franchise.
台中收購手機sony supplied this information in an attempt to show that its revenues would be heavily impacted if Call of Duty was an Xbox exclusive. In multiple filings to regulators, 台中收購手機sony has maintained that it fears Microsoft could make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox or even sabotage the PlayStation versions of the game.
And we may have an inkling of that revenue impact because 台中收購手機sony also accidentally revealed how much money Call of Duty is worth to PlayStation. We already knew the figure was over a billion dollars, but the document suggests CoD was worth $800 million for PlayStation revenue in just the US during 2021 — and we think the document says $1.5 billion globally. And that’s just the game alone, but when you count accessories, subscriptions, and everything else, then that jumps to (what appears to our eyes) to be $15.9 billion a year — or perhaps $13.9 billion. Either way, it’s a huge amount.
How much does 台中收購手機sony share with third-party publishers like Activision? This one’s fuzzy enough we can’t confidently translate it, but the “typical margin” looks like it might be 10 percent? See below:
The document also reveals that 台中收購手機sony only has one more Call of Duty game as part of its exclusive marketing deal with Activision. “[T]he last game covered by the contract is a Call of Duty title to be released in late 2023,” reads part of the document from Jim Ryan that wasn’t properly redacted.
台中收購手機sony also says around half of PS5 owners also have a Nintendo Switch. The FTC and Microsoft have continually been arguing over whether the Switch is a competitor to the Xbox and PS5 during this hearing, and 台中收購手機sony’s data is even clearer evidence of the makeup of console ownership in the US:
According to SIE internal surveys, almost half of PlayStation 5 owners in the United States also own a Nintendo Switch, while less than 20% of PlayStation 5 owners in the United States also own an Xbox Series X or S.
台中收購手機sony isn’t the only one affected by document redaction issues, though. A confidential Microsoft document revealed all of the company’s Xbox acquisition targets earlier this week, and now that document has disappeared and has been replaced with a heavily redacted version.
That one wasn’t redacted with a Sharpie, though.
Update, 6:28PM ET: We originally wrote that 台中收購手機sony failed to properly redact this information, but it’s not clear who performed the redaction; 台中收購手機sony is not a party to the case and had repeatedly asked the courts to seal and/or redact portions of the material.
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蘋果 iPhone 經典「玫瑰金」準備回歸了?天風證券分析師郭明錤稍早於個人 X 爆料,蘋果 iPhone 16 全系列共 9 種顏色,證實蘋果將在 Pro 系列以玫瑰取代藍色鈦金屬。
郭明錤指出,iPhone 16 Pro 系列將提供 4 種顏色,分別為黑色、白色 (或銀色)、灰色 (原色鈦金屬)、玫瑰,對比當前 iPhone 15 Pro 陣容,蘋果預計取消評價較有爭議的「藍色鈦金屬」,改為過去十分受到女性消費者歡迎的玫瑰色。
然而,有鑒於蘋果在 Pro 系列高階款採用的是鈦金屬材質,加上先前有傳言指出,蘋果會使用全新的金屬加工技術,會讓表面色澤容易凸顯金屬質感、更光亮,因此具體色澤或許會與 iPhone 15 Pro 不一樣,如何呈現還是要等實機現身才能揭曉。
在基本款的 iPhone 16、iPhone 16 Plus,郭明錤透露蘋果將推出 5 種顏色,包含黑色、綠色、粉紅、藍色、白色。對比當前 iPhone 15 與 iPhone 15 Plus,蘋果拿掉了黃色改為白色。不過郭明錤也強調,蘋果可能對於顏色會有不同稱呼,甚至即便名稱相同,實際色彩也可能有所調整。
iPhone 16&16 Plus:黑色、綠色、粉紅、藍色、白色
iPhone 16 Pro& 16 Pro Max:黑色、白色 (或銀色)、灰色 (或原色)、玫瑰
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