Matthew Ball
@ballmatthew
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Entrepreneur, advisor, inter/national bestselling author, and TV/film/game producer (also: not a VC). Retired wildfire fighter, active battle royaler.
MIA / NYC
Joined April 2014
[PRESENTATION] The State of Video Gaming in 2025.---.220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more . [URL in Next Post]
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RT @Roblox: Today we're we’re opening the doors to IP collaborations at scale on Roblox. Our new Licenses catalog lets creators apply to bu….
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To be clear: this is sarcasm as Nintendo clearly didn't up its original Switch 2 pricing due to tariffs, which the company also said publicly, Nintendo also had prices "high" in all markets, and Sony/others had hiked hardware and services rates around the world pre-trade war.
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Nintendo increasing the price of Switch 1 in Canada, including digital games, accessories, memberships, etc. Which is weird because so many claimed the NS2 pricing was high because of the specific U.S.-China tariffs, and Canadian incomes are 25-40% lower but have no new tariffs.
Nintendo of Canada is changing pricing on original Nintendo Switch family of systems and products in Canada based on market conditions (includes OLED, non-OLED, Lite, physical/digital Switch games and accessories, amiibo, NSO memberships). Does not apply to Switch 2. Pricing info
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RT @DavidBaszucki: Our vision is that Creators don't have to think about infrastructure - it just works at any scale. This includes during….
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U.S. District Court finds Anthropic's use of copyright books (i.e. w/o express consent/agreement/deal) to train LLMs is "transformative" ("among the most transformative in our lifetime") thus justified as fair use + "in light of the purposes of copyright".
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RT @THR: YouTube to Add Google's Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
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RT @steveasbell: Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back…. 10/24/25 - only in theaters!. (W….
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Let's gooooooooo.
ANDOR scores its first top spot in Nielsen streaming ratings, thanks to a strong second season and 3 at a time episode release strategy. A rare win for Disney+ in the streaming ratings game….
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RT @EpicGames: Newly available for free on Android worldwide and on iOS in the European Union:. 🦸 In DC Heroes United, play as heroes like….
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Great new dollar value-estimates for the largest growing markets in the video gaming business, and from the best in the region.
Our 2025 Market Model Reports are now available for 13 of the most important countries for video games 🌟. Dive into 2024–2029e gaming forecasts for China, India, East Asia (JP, KR), SEA (ID, MY, PH, SG, TH, VN), and MENA (Egypt, KSA, UAE) 🧭. 🧵Some key trends we observed:.
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RT @Toadsanime: Tencent has acquired just over 15% of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios:. https://t.co/….
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RT @olivercameron: Introducing interactive video from @odysseyml—video you can watch and interact with, imagined by AI in real-time. Give….
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RT @Lucas_Shaw: Netflix co-founder @reedhastings joins the board of AI firm Anthropic. Hastings previously served on the boards of Microso….
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With OnlyFans' business back in the news, sharing some slides from my report on the company last year. When considering OnlyFans revenues, profits, scale, defensibility, reach, and impact, the company is probably the most successful founded in the UK since DeepMind in 2010, the
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For more on the company, including the regulatory trends that helped make the company so successful, as well as the challenges faced by competitors, how App Store rules helped the company become so profitable, and the highest-grossing creators, see here!
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OnlyFans does not report active creators or users, but by the end of 2023, there were 4.4MM creators and just over 300MM fan accounts
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