Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie 基隆手機收購

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基隆手機收購sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie

基隆手機收購sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie

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The black Sharpie strikes again to reveal 基隆手機收購sony’s Call of Duty revenue secrets.

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基隆手機收購sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake. As part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing, 基隆手機收購sony supplied a document from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan that includes redacted details on the margins 基隆手機收購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 基隆手機收購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:

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It’s not just how much games cost to make that’s been revealed here, either. 基隆手機收購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.

基隆手機收購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, 基隆手機收購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 基隆手機收購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.

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How much does 基隆手機收購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:

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Does that first bit say 14 percent of PlayStation games sold are 基隆手機收購sony’s own first-party games? We’re not quite sure, but comparing to other numbers in the document it looks like “1” and “4”.
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The document also reveals that 基隆手機收購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.

基隆手機收購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 基隆手機收購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.

基隆手機收購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 基隆手機收購sony failed to properly redact this information, but it’s not clear who performed the redaction; 基隆手機收購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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▲iPhone 16 Pro Max鏡頭升級。(圖/MacRumors)

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根據中國爆料客「數位閒聊站」最新爆料指出,蘋果iPhone16 Pro Max 確認採用之前爆料的 48Mp 基隆手機收購sony IMX903 ,1/1.14超大感光元件為史上最大尺寸,而且還配備雙層晶體管技術,支援14Bit ADC 和DCG。

除此之外,蘋果iPhone16 Pro Max 仍會採用潛望式長焦鏡頭,所以螢幕邊緣弧度也因此變得更大,類似等深微微微曲的效果。

消息指出蘋果iPhone16 Pro Max 手機採用4,800 萬像素IMX903 客製化主鏡頭,1/1.14 吋感光元件與雙層電晶體。根據他先前的爆料,蘋果iPhone16 Pro 系列新機正考慮採用1MG+7P 模塑玻璃模組。

根據目前的爆料,蘋果 iPhone 16 Pro 將配備6.3 吋螢幕,15 Pro 為6.1 吋;iPhone 16 Pro Max為6.9 吋,15 Pro Max 為 6.7 吋。

此外,天風國際分析師郭明錤先前也指出,蘋果 iPhone 16 Pro 機型將迎來重大影像升級,首次搭載兩顆 48MP 感光元件,而長焦距鏡頭仍為12MP。此外,郭明錤也透露 iPhone 16 Pro 將沿用 iPhone 15 Pro Max 的雙折四棱鏡長焦鏡頭,而iPhone 17 系列機型的前置相機也將升級,採用24MP 感光元件和6P 鏡頭。

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