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Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue

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Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue Did Not Exceed Ten Percent

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EntityWideDisclosureOnGeographicAreasRevenueFromExternalCustomersAttributedToForeignCountriesPercentage

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Basis for attributing revenues from external customers to individual countries.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 38
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e9003-108599

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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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Segment Information (Narrative) (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
Segment Information (Narrative) (Details)	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
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	11.00%	10.00%	13.00%
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	15.00%	11.00%	13.00%
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	10.00%			12.00%
Switzerland [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information
Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries	324	377	1045	1012
Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries, Percentage	30.00%	33.00%	34.00%	30.00%
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%