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Ryuu96 on 27 March 2023
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KazumaKiryu said:

Microsoft pays American politicians to publish false government-level statistics and tries to weaken Sony.

500.000 Dollar for US-Senatorin Maria Cantwell, by Microsoft- is that official now??!
Instead of producing their own big, legendary games - the biggest publishers and brands (Minecraft, Call of Duty, ect) are bought by Microsoft.

PS5 games that were in production at Bethesda have been canceled, according to the developer. So Microsoft lie again.
Nintendo is completely excluded from the statistics because they are too unimportant according to Microsoft. When asked why PlayStation is so much more popular in Japan, the response was cautious. The interest of the Japanese people probably doesn't matter. Microsoft also criticizes the fact that so few Japanese developers want to work with their group.

It is ironic that Microsoft accuses its competition of monopoly. Microsoft has bought more studios and ip's in recent years than Sony.
Sony could have bought maaaany the studios in the PS2 era, but didn't - because laws and rules come first in the world. the big US group Microsoft wants to take further steps to directly weaken Sony - even outside of America. In my opinion an absolute smear campaign!

Every gamer and multiplayer should shake their heads -.- It's unbelievable what a show MS pulls off

by the way, I'm curious: Is it true that the PlayStation 5 has been outselling the Xbox everywhere in the last time, worldwide? (USA, Japan/Europe/Asia)

This is weird my dude, including a photo of her like some kind of witch hunt. It's frigging videogames.

Anyway I'll correct only the disinformation and won't bother commenting on anything else.

"Microsoft pays American politicians to publish false government-level statistics and tries to weaken Sony."

No evidence of this payment happening, lobbying does happen though, Sony does it as well, all major corporations lobby. One lobbied better than the other. These "Statistics" come from FTC's market definition which FTC made up in an attempt to block the deal with Sony's support.

"500.000 Dollar for US-Senator Maria Cantwell, by Microsoft"

No...Seen that posted around. It is plain incorrect.

Since 1991 - 2022 she has received $524,068 in donations from Microsoft individuals which means people who worked at Microsoft at the time they made the donation, basically if I worked for Microsoft and donated to her enough, I would increase that value too. Microsoft has additionally donated $2,875 to her in total using PACs from 1991 - 2022.

"PS5 games that were in production at Bethesda have been canceled, according to the developer. So Microsoft lie again."

No lie, they said they won't pull titles from PlayStation that currently exist on PlayStation, that remains true.

"Nintendo is completely excluded from the statistics because they are too unimportant according to Microsoft."

Microsoft never actually said that, they in fact tried to argue to include Nintendo in the market in order to justify their original position that a console maker doesn't need CoD to survive, it was Sony who pushed and tried to convince the regulators to dismiss Nintendo entirely and then when Microsoft offered Nintendo a contract for CoD it was Sony who started saying about how Switch is too weak for CoD, Nintendo's young fanbase isn't interested in FPS titles, etc.

The CMA did agree with parts of Sony's arguments but the FTC straight up took that argument and created an entire made up market out of it.

Microsoft had nothing to do with it but now that this dumb market definition exists, Microsoft is using it to their advantage and it is backfiring on Sony. If you want to blame someone then blame the FTC and it's partly Sony's fault for trying so hard to discredit and dismiss Switch entirely, it gave the regulators ammo to make these claims.

"Microsoft also criticizes the fact that so few Japanese developers want to work with their group."

Haven't seen that.

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I actually think the market definition is dumb as shit and Nintendo should be included but it is what it is...FTC decided to be stupid in a desperation to block the deal and now it's all backfiring in Microsoft's favour. Annoying as a Nintendo fan as well because FTC essentially called Nintendo a monopoly too, Lol.

CMA also said a bunch of dumb shit at the start about Nintendo to exclude them and that was in part because they were listening to Sony's arguments but upon closer inspection of the market they seem to have partly came around lately and backtracked a little. Although they still agree with aspects of the argument IIRC.

I'd have to look again if CMA/EC agree with the market definition but if they do then it's pretty much going to boot Switch out of the market in most major markets and thus it now becomes Xbox vs PlayStation of which Sony has large dominance over Xbox in plenty of markets so Xbox is using that to their advantage. Sony is trying to block the deal, Microsoft is trying to get it through, they'll both try every tactic possible.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 27 March 2023