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Spade said:

FTC Vs Microsoft 

Me Vs Noble

Bet: I bet Noble that the judge grants the preliminary injunction (PI) and Noble bets that no such injunction happens. I'm on team FTC, Noble on team Microsoft. 

Winner owes the other a $70 game. 

Gonna be $140 richer by September.  

Deal happening fam, noble got this.



                                                                                     

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When will the judge make a decision?



Ryuu96 said:

"We hope Nvidia can survive"

This MF for real?

Nvidia stock is over 400 a share, they control like 80% of the PC discrete GPU market compared to AMD at like 15% and Intel at maybe 5%, and last I heard, Nvidia's GeForce Now was about neck and neck with Xbox Cloud Gaming in terms of lifetime users. They aren't merely surviving, they are thriving.

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aTokenYeti said:

Was this discussed yet? 

I'm part of the 48%!



aTokenYeti said:

Was this discussed yet? 

Damn. Over 7 million undertracked for the Xbox One?



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So what is this I hear about Microsoft's lawyer accidentally saying that TES 6 is a 2026 release? Seems odd considering Phil in his testimony said it is likely 5+ years from release currently. Maybe lawyer was referring to some other Elder Scrolls game in development by accident (give me Morrowind remake xD).

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shikamaru317 said:

So what is this I hear about Microsoft's lawyer accidentally saying that TES 6 is a 2026 release? Seems odd considering Phil in his testimony said it is like 5+ years from release currently. Maybe lawyer was referring to some other Elder Scrolls game in development by accident (give me Morrowind remake xD).

Elder Scrolls Skyrim 15 year Anniversary Edition

Spoiler!
I hope its a remake of 1, 2 ,3 or 4 instead.


shikamaru317 said:

So what is this I hear about Microsoft's lawyer accidentally saying that TES 6 is a 2026 release? Seems odd considering Phil in his testimony said it is likely 5+ years from release currently. Maybe lawyer was referring to some other Elder Scrolls game in development by accident (give me Morrowind remake xD).

MS lawyer let slip during closing arguments that Elder Scrolls 16 (meant 6) was planning on releasing in 2026, she believed. So may have just been an assumption. 



Mike321 said:
Spade said:

FTC Vs Microsoft 

Me Vs Noble

Bet: I bet Noble that the judge grants the preliminary injunction (PI) and Noble bets that no such injunction happens. I'm on team FTC, Noble on team Microsoft. 

Winner owes the other a $70 game. 

Gonna be $140 richer by September.  

Deal happening fam, noble got this.



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What I think was a miss here by MS:

  • No one pointed out the EU remedy that would allow any Cloud service offering entity, not just those who signed deals, to benefit from access to ABK content.
  • No one pointed out the cloud provider can operate internationally and have a server presence worldwide just like MS Azure has a server presence in nearly every country.
  • It should have been explained that, for the cloud, content is only 1 factor of the appeal and that properties such as latency are still a huge handicap to which this transaction won't solve anything and won't put MS into a position where it is better suited than another entity to solve it that it doesn't already enjoy without it. meaning the incentive to innovate won't be impacted.
  • MS should have pointed out that there is still a long way to Cloud being anything relevant and that in the meantime, games' popularity is subject to shift.
  • MS should have stressed that even in the event they do make CoD exclusive and willingly take all the negative aspects of it, the Lee model still doesn't place MS in an advantageous position the likes Sony enjoys today and that Sony will still have many options to mitigate the issue and compete effectively.

But that said the Judge was very clever so maybe will come to those conclusions on her own. So funny that she does look to have grasped the market way better than the FTC and CMA in 5 days than they have in a year -_-, I guess the video game market is not so hard to understand when you're not suffering from self-inflicted politically motivated willful blindness.

Last edited by EpicRandy - on 29 June 2023