| Dark_Feanor said: No sales numbers brackdown, this is almost word for word the same thing Microsoft said about Halo sales. And you guys realy are assuming hardware revenue is not included. tsc, tsc, tsc... That´s so cute. Off course Activision gets a piece of each bundle sold. Michael Pachter says it MS and Sony have to pay $40-50 for each third party game bundled. |
What you said does not imply that hardware revenue is included. Only that revenue from software bundled with hardware is included. Those are two different things. One of them provide 40-50$ of revenue per unit, the other provides 420$ of revenue per unit.
And FYI, that's what I said in my post. Activision are including revenue from the software bundled with the hardware, but not the hardware itself. And there's nothing that would suggest that revenue from the actual hardware (ie. the remaining 370-380$ after Sony has paid for the copy of BO3) goes to Activision. As a matter of fact, given how this is a release for Activision Investors, I'm not sure if it would even be legal to incldue revenue from hardware bundles without noting it, as that revenue is not Activision's revenue, except those relatively small 40-50$ per unit, which, again, I presume are included with this.
So yeah, it doesn't require much to see that it's pretty clear that this doesn't include hardware.
TL;DR
There's a difference between hardware revenue being included and revenue from software bundled with hardware.
