shikamaru317 said:
Wow, this is great on so many levels. Not only did Sony's lobbying against the ABK acquisition have the opposite effect, but now we have a Senator asking the US trade representative to pressure the Japanese Fair Trade Commission to look into Sony's abuse of the system by moneyhatting Japanese exclusives like Final Fantasy in order to keep them off of Xbox. |
Yeah but I don't believe there's enough substance to justify anything else than a performative stunt. Also it falls in parts on the competition to raise those behaviour to authority especialy when they knew of the act in question but did nothing with it. And MS would have direct access to 2 of such contracts so their inaction now and past use of the very same behaviour would be seen as acceptance that this is to be expected in this industry.
However if Sony did contracts to specifically exclude content from MS products such as specificaly exclude GamePass whithout refering to subscription services more broadly they may have a case.
A similar case happened between AMD and Intel a few years back because as Intel had implemented a partern system rewarding pc/laptop/sever makers, like Dell and HP, cash not to use AMD cpus instead of basing the rewards on volume of intel CPU ordered. They were found to have wronged AMD with anti-competitve pratice and so should compensate AMD in both a USA court case and a EU one but even with such a blatant malpractice Intel successfully appealed the judgement in EU (I don't if AMD appealed the new judgement though).
Last edited by EpicRandy - on 24 March 2023
