Earnings on MacRumors
… With quarterly revenue of $102.5 billion, Apple set a new September quarter revenue record, beating analyst expectations. …
Under an all-digital model Sony records digital game sales as gross revenue rather than as a partial net like many disc sales because of the IFRS 15 agent versus principal determination. That means third-party publishers could see their reported earnings treated differently: when Sony is principal on digital sales it records the full sale and pays publishers their share, which can make publisher revenue recognition and apparent take smaller or more variable compared with the net treatment of disc sales. Answered
PlayStation CEO mentioned shift to 'true digital platform business' weeks before cutting game discs… With quarterly revenue of $102.5 billion, Apple set a new September quarter revenue record, beating analyst expectations. …
… Supply chain sources say that despite a sharp drop in motherboard shipments and a contraction in graphics card shipments, AI servers have become the main driver of revenue growth for ASUS, Gigabyte, and ASRock, which will offset the decline in motherboard and graphics card profits, and overall prof… …
… As reported by GamesIndustry.biz , Remedy's overall revenue for the first quarter was €13.1 million down 1.9% , while its operating profit was €1 million, down 23% compared to €1.3 million for the same quarter last year. …
… One thing to note: Sony's revenue recognition metrics have been heavily debated. The principle sticking point is arguments that Sony records only a portion of disc sales as net sales revenue whereas it records the full amount from digital games as gross sales. …
… There's clearly a lot of revenue to be earned in Xbox's software catalogue, even though core Xbox owners are being alienated by the decision to remove exclusives. …
… At sufficient scale, Arm’s silicon revenue competes directly with the revenue of the same companies paying their licensing fees and royalties. …
… Especially since Fox relies on carriage fees on cable networks and its new streaming service, Fox One, to generate revenues. …
… We also analyzed how exploit complexity, as measured through various proxies i.e. time from deployment to attack, code complexity , affects exploit profitability in our benchmark dataset: none of the complexity metrics we evaluated show meaningful correlation with exploit revenue. …
… Like wtf When you buy digital games you don’t own them you are only paying for the rights to use the files More Posts Xbox Revenue Falls In Latest Microsoft Earnings Report Xbox revenue has dipped, according to Microsoft’s latest earnings report. …
… In other news, Microsoft's Q1 2015 earnings were actually quite strong -- $23.2 billion in revenue, $4.5 billion profit -- with most divisions posting decent gains. Cloud revenue grew a massive 128%, and Server posted strong gains of 13%. …