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We knew it was over a billion dollars, but PlayStation boss Jim Ryan’s unredacted letter suggests CoD represented $800 million in PlayStation revenue in the United States alone, and — I think that says $1.5 billion, right? — worldwide. (That’s in 2021 specifically.)

While we listen to Dr. Bailey’s testimony, a storm is unfolding elsewhere in the FTC v. Microsoft case. The court uploaded a document earlier from Sony that included confidential financial information that wasn’t properly redacted. Now all the documents have suddenly disappeared.

That’s according to Sony gaming boss Jim Ryan, whose redacted letter to the FTC wasn’t redacted all that well...

We knew that Sony’s marketing deal with Activision expired in 2024, but that apparently doesn’t include a 2024 installment of CoD.

A big letter from Sony president Jim Ryan to the FTC wasn’t redacted properly, and we’ve been furiously hunting for secrets! First up: Horizon Forbidden West apparently cost $212 million over five years with 300 employees.

A new exhibit has just dropped and it’s full of important financial data that has been marked out with a black pen. Unfortunately that doesn’t keep it secret once you scan it in, and oops everything is no longer secret.

PlayStation chief Jim Ryan is asked why Xbox games resonate better with customers in the US than outside the country:

We’re going to get a lot of testimony from PlayStation chief Jim Ryan. The video will run for 1 hour and 10 minutes in total. Ryan confirms Sony tracks Microsoft’s console sales.

I love the chaos of this FTC v. Microsoft hearing, where confidential documents are dragged to court alongside a PS5. Philip Pacheco from Getty Images perfectly captures the mayhem outside a US courthouse building, as FTC attorneys juggle with a witness binder for Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience, and a PS5 console.

The FTC vs. Microsoft case kicks off today and we’re gradually hearing more about Sony’s opposition to Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. In a deposition, PlayStation chief Jim Ryan says that Sony would no longer share confidential details about next-gen PlayStation consoles with a Microsoft-owned Activision. “We simply could not run the risk of a company that was owned by a direct competitor having access to that information.”

Sony’s 2023 lineup of TVs will include a special game menu, similar to the ones companies like Samsung, LG, and others already have

For his new Spider-Verse short The Spider Within that just premiered at the Annecy International Film Festival, director Jarelle Dampier wanted to get real about Miles Morales having anxiety because he “just seems like that kind of kid.”

While most of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s creatives were seasoned professionals, Preston Mutanga, the genius behind the movie’s brief foray into a stop-motion world full of Lego characters, is a Canadian teen — the same who recreated the movie’s trailer:

Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida hinted to the Financial Times that it’s still in the studying phase re: cloud gaming, due to the “technical difficulties” of streaming games over the internet.

Sony’s Across the Spider-Verse isn’t just a breathtaking work of art — it’s a seminal piece of Spider-Man storytelling that rightfully establishes Miles Morales as this generation’s definitive webhead. Across the Spider-Verse’s trailers alone have been tremendous, but check out our review to read more about what makes the movie work so, so well.

At Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s LA premiere this week, producer Amy Pascal teased that Miles Morales is definitely making his live-action debut in the near future, and Sony’s already working on another Spider-Man starring Tom Holland: