Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues on the way! CTOnews.com June 29 news, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently conducted an antitrust review of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, requiring Sony and other game companies to provide relevant confidential data. Because Sony blacked out some of the data with a marker, but it can still be seen after the scan, the data was stripped away by the media and netizens.

These figures include the development budget, sales revenue and number of employees of some well-known games on Sony's PlayStation platform. For example:

Horizon: the desperate situation of the West has a development budget of $212 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 1.535 billion yuan), takes five years and requires 300 employees.

The Last Survivor 2 has a development budget of $220 million (currently about 1.593 billion yuan) and requires 200 full-time employees.

In the United States alone, the call of Duty series generated $800 million (currently about 5.792 billion yuan) for Sony's PlayStation platform in 2021, and could reach $1.5 billion worldwide.

Call of Duty players spend an average of $15.9 billion a year on other things they buy (currently about 115.116 billion yuan).

It is worth mentioning that the production cost of HBO's "Last Survivor" reality series is about $100 million to $150 million, which is less than the development budget of "final Survivor 2".

In other parts of the document, Sony's PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said that 1 million PlayStation users only play the call of Duty series, while as many as 20 million users spend a lot or most of their time playing the series on the PlayStation platform.

Sony provided the data to FTC to prove that if Microsoft turned the call of Duty series into an exclusive game, it would do serious damage to Sony (although previous emails suggested otherwise).

In addition, Microsoft accidentally revealed some internal information during the review process. Earlier this week, internal emails from Microsoft were revealed in the media, indicating that Microsoft had considered buying Sega, Bungie and IO Interactive gaming companies. According to Matt Buti, head of Microsoft's Xbox game studio, Microsoft's goal at the time was to "spend money to kill Sony." Microsoft responded that the emails were "an industry trend we have never pursued" and had nothing to do with Activision Blizzard's acquisition.

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