FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
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Microsoft has signed 10-year deals with Nvidia, Nintendo, and a bunch of other cloud gaming companies. The FTC is arguing that those agreements aren’t backed by financial analysis or numbers on theses “apparently amazing deals.” Microsoft says:
The question is, what is the output of those agreements? And there’s no dispute that Call of Duty is going to be in cloud services if the transaction goes through. So you asked and I asked every one of our executives whether they would honor these contracts, they said it in open court, they said it to you under oath, and they’ve said it for the last year to be honest. Are they really honestly suggesting that they weren’t credible? They’re going to get up in a public courtroom in front of you lie about whether they would honor these contracts. I mean, it’s absolutely absurd, really, it is to suggest that Satya Nadella got up in your courtroom and said he would honor it. In fact, he doesn’t even like exclusives. he would like his content to be everywhere.
FTC argues that Microsoft is “setting the terms of market competition on their own” and that Microsoft has no deals with Google or Amazon so they’re picking which company to deal with. Worth noting Microsoft isn’t going to sign a deal with Google when Stadia is dead, but it is interesting with Microsoft hasn’t signed a deal with Amazon for Luna.
