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Indeed, the FTC is asking this Court to be the first in decades to find a vertical merger unlawful.
Damn, Lol.
First, there is no evidence to support the FTC's central theory that Xbox will take COD away from Playstation. The FTC does not cite a single document or witness even suggesting this will happen. On the contrary, Jim Ryan, the CEO of SIE, and the chief commercial opponent of this deal, said privately on the day it was announced REDACTED.
I would love to see what that redacted is, I would guess it's something along the lines of Jim Ryan said privately that Xbox would never take CoD away from PlayStation, so if Sony doesn't believe that then why would FTC.
Withholding COD would harm Xbox. It would contradict the valuation the Board relied on in approving the deal, which assumed profits from continued Playstation sales.
That board point is something I never considered.
And it would make COD a worse game and enrage the gaming community
Gamers Rise Up!
As one example, the FTC claims that gaming's PCs and Nintendo's consoles (both far more popular than Xbox) are not in the same market as Playstation and Xbox, even though the economic evidence REDACTED have said the opposite. Why does the FTC contradict REDACTED in this respect? Because recognizing Nintendo and PCs as part of the market would destroy the FTC's flimsy foreclosure theory: Nintendo has been successful for years without COD, as was the dominant PC game store Valve's Steam.
It's baffling that FTC is still holding onto the Console SLC and Subscription Service SLC.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 17 June 2023
