Wow. 43.5 million playstation players accounting for 41% of playstation user based played COD for at least 2h in 2021. That game is huge.
Really not surprising and why Jim works hard for this deal not to go through.
I can't find source atm, but i posted a couple of hundred pages ago that cod yields Sony around 600 million dollars annually.
It's only fanboys living in a bauble who downplays the importance of cod.
Could Sony survive without cod?
Yes.
But Sony would take a huge hit, and it could easily move users to Xbox.
And even more likely to have both.
This could potentially hit even further, if people only used playstation to first party and Xbox to third party, as it would take further sales in software.
Just speculation, won't say it happens, but Sony knows this could happen, and they don't want that.
They don't want a single person in this scenario. They want everything for themselves.