FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
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Microsoft’s attorney is asking Stuart to look at a revenue chart for Minecraft by platform, comparing different devices. Here’s loosely how it breaks down: Xbox is the smallest platform for Minecraft, PlayStation is roughly twice as big, and Nintendo’s platform is twice as big as PlayStation (or four times as big as Xbox.)
Mobile and PC numbers aren’t broken down, but they’re implied to be very large. Stuart also says this:
“Minecraft is one of the most profitable, if not the most profitable, IP that we have.”
The implication, of course, is that Microsoft would be leaving a lot of money on the table by locking it down — and that it would make just as little sense to take Call of Duty exclusive. The lawyer asks how Microsoft CFO Amy Hood would respond to a request like that. Stuart says:
“She would say probably that doesn’t make sense, we need to keep the existing business model running.”
