FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
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Microsoft argues that “everyone said that cloud isn’t an economically viable model” during their witness testimony.
Judge Corley cuts in: “maybe not right now... but we don’t have DVDs anymore. The FTC’s concern is about the future.”
Microsoft’s lawyer argues we might have a future of mobile where you have to develop native mobile games because phones are “going to be so powerful.” What about the cloud agreements:
MS lawyer: With all of these other streaming services… they are all going to have the ability to stream the game which they don’t have today.
Judge Corley to FTC: In some sense you won and got what you wanted, forced them into enter these agreements
FTC: We have evidence there are agreements... we do not have evidence of anything beyond agreements
Judge Corley: Why would Nvidia do what they did, say what they said? They’re a competitor to Microsoft in cloud gaming so why did they do it then?
FTC: That doesn’t count under the law because it’s not merger specific. The deal could have been achieved whether we were here or not... it was a sweetener.
