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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by danso on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:33PM (#19433986)
Ubisoft's revenues are ~$2B. Google's is $130B+. Google already pays Apple $10B+ annually just to be the default search engine on iOS/macOS. You really think there's no room for negotiation here?
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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by orbifold on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:57PM (#19435051)
Close to 10% of their revenue? That is insane...
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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by danso on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:23PM (#19435381)
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-pay-apple-12-billion-1...

Apparently it's a Goldman Sachs estimate. The last time that number was explicitly listed (in court filings) was $1B in 2014. The more apt metric would be what YouTube pays for original content, though I've only seen estimates/projections (a "few hundred million"):

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/23/youtube-red-original-pro...

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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by sidcool on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:19AM (#19440621)
Someone might say Apple is using its muscle to get that insane kind of money from Google. It's almost like ransom.
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