FTC lawyer - so the Xbox S is a gen 9 console, right?
— Michael Acton (@MActon93) June 29, 2023
"Gen 9 is kind of an inside baseball term, in any event the console competes against other products in the market."
Another email to Spencer from Aug 2022 – informing about some pricing moves from Sony – and talking about some foreign exchange effects and other pricing differences between Xbox S and PS5.
— Michael Acton (@MActon93) June 29, 2023
(This stuff goes to FTC's console market definition)
No shit they'd compare the two when they're launching near the same time...
FTC now trying to imply that Microsoft's financial model for the ZeniMax deal like the one for the Activision deal (codename "Denali") assumed no platform changes, and that this means Microsoft can't be trusted not to make platform changes for key Activision titles.
— Florian Mueller (@FOSSpatents) June 29, 2023
🧵9/X
Stuart also prepared one for ZeniMax acquisition. It assumed that there would be non-Xbox platform revenue.
— Michael Acton (@MActon93) June 29, 2023
"That’s right"
Desperate tactic, there is still non-Xbox platform revenue but both the acquisitions are different, both have different contracts and one has promised CoD already.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 29 June 2023
