Their "word" can never be trusted. CMA knows this.An excerpt from the Sony's response to Microsoft's subpoena to the FTC:
WOW!
Yeah, the judge agreed with Sony and quashed the request by Microsoft -- along with a bunch of other unreasonable requests. Pretty much agreed with Sony on all points.
Yup! Precisely. At the very least, there is almost no scenario in which this deal goes through and Sony doesn't walk away, at minimum, with a 10-year deal in place for CoD, potentially even inclusion in PS+ should they want it. It'll effectively cripple the timescale by which MS will be able to maximize their potential benefits of this buyout, and allow Sony a maximum amount of time to allow their own live-service titles, some of which are FPS and were set to compete directly with CoD anyway, giving them some much needed breathing room.
See, exactly what I spelled out when discussing why Sony was fighting all subpeona requests prior: MS was always going to overreach on their requests, and in legal terms they are encouraged to do so, cause it grants you both legal pressure and public pressure if its a high-profile case. Ofc Sony was going to fight to limit the scope of the subpoena and lower it down to what the judge feels is relevant to this case and nothing more.
Disagree with the assessment.
You sure the judge has signed it?
Outsiders dev
Never listen to Phil’s lies
Im sure Sony did the math, and knows X% buy call of duty only, Y% buy call of duty and maybe a handful of games, and Z% buy cod with a bunch of games, where X&Y % is high enough to really trouble sony, as they would most likely lose all of them.
An excerpt from the Sony's response to Microsoft's subpoena to the FTC:
WOW!
Heisenberg007
, what is your source for your screenshot? That document isn't on the FTC website that I can see.
Heisenberg007
works for the FTC, or for the U.S. courts??
They are contractually obligated to do so. The merger agreement signed between both parties has a good faith clause: if either party can be observed as being against the deal publicly, or not putting in what they deem to be 'adequate' effort to insure it goes through, then they open themselves up to breach of contract and can be sued over it. This applies to both MS and ATVI. This is why you saw Nadella and Kotick go on all the financial media outlets to shit talk the UK/CMA.
Think it is the same document that I have linked but may be misinterpreted that the judge has signed it.
Also this. Not sure if it's new or was posted earlier, but I think it would be new information to most:
Edit:
- Document request number 13 = Microsoft requested SIE's leadership internal performance review lol
I'm an actual MS shareholder and I'm not impressed. I've been unhappy that MS wastes money on the Xbox division with no obvious goal for years now. They can use the money they spend on Xbox in better ways.
Yeah but they have imo made two great purchases/investments in github and openai.
I am missing out on a big party. Just jealous not being part of this fun."you guys"
No, it's a simp for Sony.I'm with R reksveks on this one.
EDIT: Did we just figure out that
Ass of Can Whooping
.MS has a very mixed reputation for acquisitions. Some work out, but many do not.
Oh shit, so you’re telling me the court is in on this conspiracy with Sony and the regulators too!!! Poor MS.
I’m going to go and give my Series S to a tramp.An excerpt from the Sony's response to Microsoft's subpoena to the FTC:
WOW!
I think copilot should have referencing but think it's a net good personally. I do understand the concerns behind 'generative ai/systems' ripping of people's works and not giving financial rewards or credit. We are going to have to legislate for this.
The lumia range was decent, the base os was good but once they couldn't get devs to buy in. they should have given up sooner and moved onto their current strategy of having decent apps on android.
I am not sure the judge has agreed to anything yet.
Their "strategy" for Windows Phone was absolutely insane. They kept on rebooting the platform over and over, making the old ones instantly obsolete. Windows Mobile -> Windows Phone 7 -> Windows Phone 8 -> Windows 10 Mobile and every single new one was incompatible with the old one. What the actual fuck was MS doing? Why would any app devs bother making apps for a platform that kept on being burned down and rebuilt seemingly every year?
It was gone the moment both companies couldn't reach an agreement with COD.
Phil Spencer and Jim Ryan are headlining the next Jake Paul PPC. First one to die has to sell his company to the winner.
No one was developing for it anyways, no one developed for Fire OS phone or the short lived Tizen phone. I do think they fucked up buying Nokia but they just got played by Android so very well.
This was the birth of their product, and I truly believe that when this is your initial primary motivation it pervades everything and lasts forever. Everything else is a lie, and this is always the end game.That was always just a front.
Considering their obsession with Sony, both in terms of the subpoena and their submissions to all the various regulators I think they thought they could easily handle them throughout this process. They clearly haven't, and to make matters worse the likes of Google and Nvidia have come weighing in, something I don't think they expected.
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall in their offices in the last 48 hours.
Maybe buying 15 developers in 4 years drew attention to their practices
I better put my Series X and PS5 in different rooms from now on.
Resetera right now
Megacorp Microsoft are getting their feelings hurt here!
Would you listen to this...
All 4 of those have been dragged through the coals by anti-trust bodies you cunt!
