Microsoft Suing Motorola Over Xbox 360 Tech

[Alby_da_Wolf]

hobbit said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Yep, a contract and a promise aren't the same, if we add that the "promise" is to apply "reasonable" pricing, we get a wide degree of subjectivity. I can't see MS getting money back, but a compromise between the two parties for the future is very likely. If totally losing and without reaching a compromise, MS could be forced to prematurely kill its console again, although this time maybe it could let it live its whole minimum planned life as main console, but give up letting it live further, after next gen release, as entry level model, as royalties for 3rd parties techs would become excessive to price it low enough for its new role.

verbal conrtracts can be legally binding; what makes you think that they don't have a written contract anyway? Just because some idiot wrote promise instead of agreement?

If we discuss, resting on what we can read is still one step above doing it on hypotheses about what the source really wanted to write, this until we get more reliable infos about the issue, partially or totally confirming or denying it. Anyway, even if it was a verbal and valid contract, the fact that the deal, or promise, or whatever was about charging a "not excessive, discriminatory, punishing, unfair, whatever" fee, still leaves a high degree of uncertainty and subjectivity, enforcing such a clause won't be easy, unless Motorola's request be really and undeniably crazy.