2023-06-29 01:31:10
The FTC vs. Microsoft/Activision trial continues to provide good intelligence, and on day four we learned things like the cost of developing Horizon Forbidden West (212 million, using 300 employees), 1 million PlayStation gamers only playing Call of Duty ( and “more than 6 million users spend more than 70% of their time” on the franchise), the Call of Duty game alone (without DLC or subscriptions) brings in $800 million per year for PlayStation in the US alone (2021 ), only one game in the series has a marketing deal with Sony — and there are more. So why is Sony sharing all these trade secrets, are they forced to? The answer is no, they did it by accident. They redacted sensitive information in some files, but in old-fashioned sharp notation. It didn’t take long for people to figure out what the page really said when it was published. The Verge has recreated the edited docs, which we highly recommend you check out, as they have interesting tidbits such as “Almost half of PlayStation 5 owners in the US also own a Nintendo Switch, while less than 20% of PlayStation 5s in the US have a Nintendo Switch.” The latter also owns an Xbox Series X or S”. We assume Sony won’t use a sharp knife the next time it redacts classified information, and that someone in the company might get an angry call from their boss.
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