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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by majormajor on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:43PM (#32091404)
Your claim now is that not just the internal PnL for films is obfuscated but both global box office numbers + public company reporting top-line revenue is as well?

If you want to raise a bunch of VC money to open a movie studio because of that, good luck to you, but... doesn't seem like you'll get a lot of bites.

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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by tomcam on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:51PM (#32091446)
> Your claim now is that not just the internal PnL for films is obfuscated but both global box office numbers + public company reporting top-line revenue is as well?

Where did I make a claim about the top line numbers?

> If you want to raise a bunch of VC money to open a movie studio

Wut? At this point I’m not sure you’re actually responding to my comment but cheers

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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by majormajor on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:56PM (#32091479)
>Where did I make a claim about the top line numbers?

The claim I made was about "their revenue" - that's the top-line number. You disputed that by saying we don't know.

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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by ipaddr on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:43PM (#32091755)
Their revenue is hidden in shell and related companies. What revenue are you looking at the public profits of Disney?
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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by tomcam on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:17AM (#32092288)
I should’ve been clearer. I meant the 10x part. Apologies.
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Re:Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games by oceanplexian on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:47PM (#32091775)
It’s not VC money but you pretty much described Amazon, Netflix, and so on. If they are dumping money hand over fist into original content they probably have a good economic argument for it.
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