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Ryuu96 on 27 March 2023
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gtotheunit91 said:
shikamaru317 said:

10 US Representatives, both Republican and Democrat, have now joined Democrat Senator Maria Cantwell in asking US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimonda to pressure Japan on why their regulatory agency is allowing Sony to participate in anti-competitive console exclusivity deals with Japanese developers and publishers, when Sony holds 98% of the "high-end console" marketshare in Japan. 

The letter sent by 4 Republicans states:

“The Japanese government’s effective policy of non-prosecution when it comes to Sony appears to be a serious barrier to U.S. exports, with real impacts for Microsoft and the many U.S. game developers and publishers that sell globally but see their earnings in Japan depressed by these practices,”

The letter sent by 6 Democrats contains similar messaging.

This is where bipartisan support is coming from?!?

Sony gonna be really pissed at the CMA and FTC for excluding Nintendo completely from their investigations lol. Not that this actually means anything and Japan is suddenly going to be like "damn, you're right." 

Sony themselves pushed to exclude and disregard Nintendo from all conversations during this as soon as Microsoft pointed out that Switch has survived without CoD because they didn't want evidence that a console can actually survive without CoD. So Sony has themselves to blame as well, although the CMA/FTC didn't have to go along with their market definition.

We've gone from Sony having Microsoft on the ropes to the Console SLC being dropped entirely and now things are quickly backfiring on Sony, Lol.

Wonder if Microsoft can use this argument to justify making a large Japanese acquisition, although, there is still the Cloud SLC.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 27 March 2023