By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Ryuu96 on 09 December 2022
Edit Thread

Already said how restricting the market to "high performance video game consoles" to exclude Nintendo is highly stupid, Lol.

FTC 'confirms' that Switch isn't a ninth generation console! Jk. Who gives a shit? Lol. I don't see how it's relevant to the case.

They're also claiming that there are only 4 AAA independent publishers? Are they for real? First excluding Nintendo from the market, ignoring PCs and now this. They claim that only ABK, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft are the 4 - What about Embracer Group? Sega? Capcom? Square Enix? Bandai Namco? Epic Games?

They're purposely restricting the market once again by focusing on "independent" only, thus preventing us from including Tencent, NetEase and WBIE but I don't see why it matters that those companies aren't independent when they're all still competition in the market and Tencent in particular is huge competition to Microsoft.

And they aren't only counting American companies because Ubisoft wouldn't be there in that case.

Epic is one of few studios capable of releasing AAA titles? What? There's literally dozens, Lol.

Excluding PC & Mobile from the discussion because they aren't "commercially reasonable alternatives to high performance consoles" is Lol.

Not sure I understand this point "Buy to play games are not commercially reasonable alternatives to subscription services, therefore they are different markets"

Anyway, they're clearly trying to restrict the market as narrow as it can possibly get to screw over Microsoft. Next they'll say something like this competitor isn't a commercially reasonable alternative because they don't have a green logo like Xbox, Lol. If anything has came out of this, it's that regulators have a surprising huge lack of knowledge in the gaming industry or know they are talking nonsense but just want to drag it out as long as possible.

CADE still remains the best, they used actual facts, they backed their research up, an extremely thorough look into the market and they did it in a few months, they didn't make crystal ball predictions, they didn't ignore their mission statement to fit their narrative, what a difference, Lol.