Apple and Epic Games have taken to court this year over a dispute over the phone maker’s 30% platform fee which Epic says is “exorbitant.” In October, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers of the Northern California District Court warned that the outcome of the lawsuit would also have consequences for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, as the three companies charge development fees based on a model. similar selling. his products. games through their respective online stores. However, Xbox boss Phil Spencer believes the two cases are not comparable.
In an interview with The Verge, Spencer said that the comparison is not fair because Apple products are “general computing platforms” and you understand that the number of consoles sold in an entire generation is less than the number of. phones sold in a single year. .
If you just look at the scale, there are a billion cell phones on the planet. These are general computing platforms. A game console really does one thing; play video games. It is sold, for us, at a loss. Then get your money back by selling content and services as well. The model is very, very different from anything Windows, iOS, or Android scale.
I think there are 200 million game consoles sold in one generation across all of our platforms. That’s less than a year of phone sales. It’s not even close. People say, well, the scale shouldn’t matter. It really is. When you start to see how we see open platforms and access, those things matter. From a legal standpoint, they matter.
Epic’s lawsuit against Apple is pending resolution.
[Source: The Verge via Wccftech]