Sony: Call of Duty franchise brought PlayStation $800M in the US in 2021
We understand why Sony fighting against the deal.
Poorly scanned documents from the FTC hearings provided more data on the PlayStation business.
Sony claims that the direct revenue from the Call of Duty series on PlayStation in 2021 was $1.5B. The US was responsible for $800M of this amount.
If we will count users who played Call of Duty, revenue from them is somewhere between $13.9B and $15.9B.
43M users played Call of Duty games on PlayStation in the US since 2019. It’s two third of the overall audience in the region.
About a million US PlayStation users are playing only Call of Duty.
Sony still has exclusive marketing rights for one Call of Duty game that will launch in 2023.
In 2021 internal games from PlayStation studios brought 14% of all sales (but this number might be false, as it’s not clearly visible in the document.
Sony’s margin from third-party sales on the platform is around 10%.