Sony will earn more from Call of Duty this year, with a higher % cut per sale.
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Because she was doing lobby to get the Activision Blizzard deal pass…
BTW what she said was not clear if it was higher cut or not… better terms can mean anything.
I could never get into CoD, CS is my go to shooter, It always felt like the rejects of CS who always got their ass kicked migrated to CoD.
Anyways the gamepass reckoning will happen, Warzone is f2p and has the majority of players, will be hilarious if CoD revenue drops from the past year due to lamepass
Anyways the gamepass reckoning will happen, Warzone is f2p and has the majority of players, will be hilarious if CoD revenue drops from the past year due to lamepass
Sony had a 20% cut on COD games under Activision, now they have the standard 30% cut under Microsoft. Sony is now getting a bigger bag from COD. No more marketing cost and they are getting an extra 10% in revenue from COD sales which is all profit for Sony. Revenue in Q4 of this year will be up YoY because of this and the Pro
Where is this info for curiosity? 30% is what Sony ask to all publishers.Sony had a 20% cut on COD games under Activision, now they have the standard 30% cut under Microsoft. Sony is now getting a bigger bag from COD. No more marketing cost and they are getting an extra 10% in revenue from COD sales which is all profit for Sony. Revenue in Q4 of this year will be up YoY because of this and the Pro
These people are the reason games keep getting worse , won't buy the actual game but will pay 30$ for some worthless shite
Did you notice it just now?)
Gamers will gladly spend money on F2P, MMO subscriptions, and many other things that are simply technically impossible to get for free, or at some point later with a 75%+ discount.
Bobby Kotick negotiated only a 20% cut for Sony look it up. Now it's back to 30%. Why do you think Jim Ryan suddenly stopped caring about COD? He got his way, the man is a genius. Ofcourse people dont see it that way because yall let Reset Era poison your minds.
Sony takes 'discounted margin' on Call of Duty sales and earnings on PlayStation
Sony takes a 'discounted margin' on Call of Duty sales/earnings on PlayStation, gives Activision larger revenue cut, UK regulators at the CMA have found.
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Yup, in fact the gains from this change in the COD contract could make more money than all the pc ports and published games combined.Sony had a 20% cut on COD games under Activision, now they have the standard 30% cut under Microsoft. Sony is now getting a bigger bag from COD. No more marketing cost and they are getting an extra 10% in revenue from COD sales which is all profit for Sony. Revenue in Q4 of this year will be up YoY because of this and the Pro
For instance if Sony made 200 million profit from COD annually previously, now it would be 300 million and no marketing expenses.
Win - win.
So seems that with the acquisition:
The highest CoD yearly revenue number we got was $3B, being over $1B from CoD mobile. So being optimisting in PS it made over $1B, let's say $1.2B as a random guess. 20% (assuming this was the discounted revenue share, not sure if true) of that would be $240M. A 30% of that would be $360M.
Other than this, unless I missed something we don't know which was the discounted % that Activision had at Sony before the acquisition, and if Sony kept the discount for MS or if removed it.
Maybe Jimbo said to Spencer "Do you want to acquire ABK and keep the discount? Only if you port all your previous and future XBO and Xbox Series main ABK, Zenimax and Xbox Studio games to PS before releasing the next generation, and if you also provide us access to the full ABK catalog via cloud gaming via Ubisoft. If you sign this we'll approve the acquisition, and we may negotiate a new discount, not as big as the one ABK had."
- PS continues getting CoD
- PS no longer pays CoD marketing
- PS gets a higher revenue share from CoD
- PS gets even the Xbox Studios games on PS
- PS pretty likely will get in cloud gaming the ABK games like CoD via Ubisoft
Last fiscal year Sony made over $700M with their first party games outside PS (meaning, mostly PC).
The highest CoD yearly revenue number we got was $3B, being over $1B from CoD mobile. So being optimisting in PS it made over $1B, let's say $1.2B as a random guess. 20% (assuming this was the discounted revenue share, not sure if true) of that would be $240M. A 30% of that would be $360M.
Some platform holders take a lower revenue share from the very top 3rd party publishers. In this case, we know Sony had a discounted % for Activision Blizzard (top #1 publisher in PS). Sony said in court that the discould could dissapear post-acquisition:
Other than this, unless I missed something we don't know which was the discounted % that Activision had at Sony before the acquisition, and if Sony kept the discount for MS or if removed it.
Maybe Jimbo said to Spencer "Do you want to acquire ABK and keep the discount? Only if you port all your previous and future XBO and Xbox Series main ABK, Zenimax and Xbox Studio games to PS before releasing the next generation, and if you also provide us access to the full ABK catalog via cloud gaming via Ubisoft. If you sign this we'll approve the acquisition, and we may negotiate a new discount, not as big as the one ABK had."
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And if Sony was honest during the trials, and they relied on COD to make first party games, this would be good new for first party studios at Sony.
I remember this doc... but where it says it was 20% before?Sony takes 'discounted margin' on Call of Duty sales and earnings on PlayStation
Sony takes a 'discounted margin' on Call of Duty sales/earnings on PlayStation, gives Activision larger revenue cut, UK regulators at the CMA have found.
For what it was showed in FTC they only says Activision asked a 80/20 split to MS in 2020.
They probably asked Sony too? Yes... but Sony said they don't disclose business deals.
20% asked to Xbox in 2020.
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And it makes sense... because Xbox had lower userbase and so less power to negotiate the deal.
But Sony have everything in their favor to negotiate the deal.