Big businesses will do anything to succeed, legal or not. It's why they all have huge teams of lawyers, and special interest lobbyists to get laws to favor them when possible and defend themselves when they don't.
But in the case of MS vs Sony they aren't fighting illegally. They are just being aggressive. Something Sony wishes it could do right now. It just can't. And initially they didn't need to because Nintendo handed them a silver platter with every third party on it. No business is going to willingly crash and burn because it thinks that something is perfectly legal, but maybe a little questionable as far as being honorable goes. In no board room meeting, or meeting with the shareholders are they going to say "Yeah, we lost tens of millions this quarter, and the competition is beating the hell out of us, but seriously, they are just being dicks. Doesn't it make you feel better being a martyr?".
I repeat, the only reason Sony isn't fighting harder is because they can't. The only reason they didn't fight dirty in past generations is because Nintendo was their own worst enemy. It's not because they are a good honorable company.
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