No it won't be huge for the deal that is the how the law works. 1) sonys 3rd party agreements are times and Microsoft does exactly the same thing with titles they have marketing agreements for and ps plus 2) buying a publisher is completely incomparable to 3rd party toned exclusivity deals 3) in law two wrongs don't make a right. Even if sonts actions would be considered anti-competitive that has literally zero bearing on wether or not the activision blizzard acquisition would be anti-competitive and bad for consumers in the medium to long term. If MS have a serious issue with sony's deals its welcome to bring antitrust cases against Sony if it feels there is an issue.

This article is a bunch of word salad but what is the point or story? All they are doing is stating statutes. Nothing about this case is being directly stated.

“Dirty deals”

Lol “okay”

because MS real objective is to get those dirty deals sony is making ..certainly the ones were sony is paying millions to keep games out of gamepass which will cause them problems ... sony never went out defending about this certain claim by Microsoft which was a direct and public claim and sony knows its true so the act like they didnt hear a thing or they wouldve went to court

For those that got nose deep in the article waters here is a few points
1 Microsoft need documentation(discovery ) to defend themselves their accuser’s
2 Microsoft accuser’s can exclude information they deem secret or trademarked
3 The courts have ways to extricate what’s considered secret or trademark. Microsoft can’t be denied the purchase based on documents deemed secret as the law say they need to know what they defending from.

Now think about it this way let’s say KFC is suing Popeyes for whatever reasons, Popeyes have the right of discovery ask for information they can include KFC seasoning recipe but that doesn’t mean they’ll get it, the court will have to go through all the documents to match them to what is considered secret and exclude it or provide it according tho the case needs

Rlow: “As for the article, interesting that Sony hasn’t backed up their claims with some sort of paperwork”
Do you really think Sony hasn’t produced any documentation?🤦ㇿ 9;
If Sony hasn’t provided any documentation the case would had been thrown out of courts a long time ago and Sony would had been fined for frivolous suits.

@splun frivolous suit /claims take your pick it’s the same thing 🤦🏿.
You don’t go making serious claims just for fun without providing some paperwork.

Oh i do my friend, everyone has a reason why something should or shouldn't come true in this case. Europe and Sony or Amazon anc Google.

Yes, they shouldn't be allowed to buy a major third party developer in the first place, to take games away from an already existing fanbase for more then three decades just because you can't manage the 20something studios you already have.

It's poor form on Ms part and desperate to buy a pub for 69billion when you didn't need to because the games were coming to your system to begin with, and for a small fraction of that 69bil you could've had as many triple A production in your pipeline for years to come.

You people really don't operate on logic do you?

Set trip

You didn't refute a single thing he said, just regurgitated the same old talking points you fanboys scream until the end of time. It's well known Sony bought Psygnosis to enter gaming back in the day. Why weren't you crying then?

Sony is only looking out and going to bat for they're fanbase what do you expect them to do? But the burden of proof is on Ms to prove why in 4 console cycles with 2trillion to back you and 20something (at they're respective times) highly regarded studios can't you compete with sony??

It's clear that Ms thought that copy and pasting everybody else strategies (wii motion control, let's make connect, psnow let's make gamepass, Sony acquiring smaller game developers, let's do that, single player games are dead, but sees sony single player games sell 20mil units, lets backtrack)

Ms really doesn't have it's own identity in the gaming space because each new popular idea that Sony or Nintendo come up with they literally copy and paste it and just throw money at it regardless of talent behind it, they think that breeds success...and its pathetic really and just shows Ms never did any real research before trying to consolidate gaming they always thought just throw money and specs at something and the problem would take care of itself.

Settrip

Has nothing to do with their base and everything to do with their bottom line

And Firewall Ultra coming soon. The first game was amazing. Literally hundreds of hours in that game!

And Factions 2. And Burning Sands, which is PS5 exclusive, so not bound by PS4. And Spider-man 2

This stupid MS deal is bringing the information flow to a halt. Nobody wants to show their hand, so we don't get to know what else is coming this year!

You said it perfect. Games are being released all the time on Sony. Psvr 2 and the train,

The difference is that MS can afford to acquire Activision. It's not different than when in the 90s Sony got in the gaming industry and made deals that Sega and Nintendo would struggle to afford such as acquiring Psygnosis whose games at the time accounted for 40% of game sales in Europe.

*Yawn*

The more you say it the better it must feel.

Why i should care when i cant play lot of games on my xbox because of 3rd party exclsuivity or studios bought by sony?
Sony is screwing xbox gamers as they can... Just give them more pcket depth and you will see wonders