| **Segment Information (Narrative) (Details)**                                                               | 3 Months Ended | 6 Months Ended |
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| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue Did Not Exceed Ten Percent                         |           |           | 10.00% |   |
| Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Microsoft [Domain]              |           |           |   |   |
| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue                                                    | 13.00%         |           | 14.00% |   |
| Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Sony [Domain]                   |           |           |   |   |
| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue                                                    | 11.00%         |           | 12.00% |   |
| Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Gamestop Corp [Member]          |           |           |   |   |
| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue                                                    | 12.00%         | 16.00%         |   | 14.00% |
| Switzerland [Member]                                                                                        |           |           |   |   |
| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries             | 189            | 195            | 721 | 635 |
| Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries, Percentage | 23.00%         | 20.00%         | 36.00% | 29.00% |
| United States [Member]                                                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| **Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information**                                                      |           |           |   |   |
| Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Entity's Country of Domicile  |           |           | 99.00% |   |

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| - Definition
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| - Definition
Basis for attributing revenues from external customers to individual countries.
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.
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