Day 3 of FTC Preliminary Injunction request against Microsoft buying ABK 1st recap:
-The day opened with a pre-filmed deposition of SCE CEO Jim Ryan (he is currently in Japan)
-Playstation doubles wariness on having Microsoft with PS6 details/dev kits
-An email from Phil Spencer in August 2022 was the moment he knew things will not go well for Playstation if the transaction closes
-Acknowledge that was convinced that it was King and mobile studios the main target of the purchase
-Ryan told Bobby Kotick that wanted the deal blocked
-Jim Ryan contradicted on a meeting with Fidelity Investors in 2022 that he was wary of Xbox Game Pass business model claiming publisher are not sold, but at the same meeting was confident that the buyout wasn't about Call Of Duty
-Playstation 5 lost against Xbox Series X in the first three month of respective availability
-Economist expert as FTC witness, Dr. Robin Lee, agrees with the FTC’s market definition of Xbox Series S / X and PS5 consoles as “high performance” BUT, included Nintendo Switch where FTC wanted NOT to count Nintendo at ANYTHING
-At counter-questioning, Microsoft legal team brought a document were Sony sees Nintendo as competitor, but it seems that FTC prepared Dr. Lee as he was very evasive on not sounding contradicting
-An scenario where COD is not available on Nintendo and other assumptions, Xbox would increase its share on Call Of Duty by 8.5%
-The day opened with a pre-filmed deposition of SCE CEO Jim Ryan (he is currently in Japan)
-Playstation doubles wariness on having Microsoft with PS6 details/dev kits
-An email from Phil Spencer in August 2022 was the moment he knew things will not go well for Playstation if the transaction closes
-Acknowledge that was convinced that it was King and mobile studios the main target of the purchase
-Ryan told Bobby Kotick that wanted the deal blocked
-Jim Ryan contradicted on a meeting with Fidelity Investors in 2022 that he was wary of Xbox Game Pass business model claiming publisher are not sold, but at the same meeting was confident that the buyout wasn't about Call Of Duty
-Playstation 5 lost against Xbox Series X in the first three month of respective availability
-Economist expert as FTC witness, Dr. Robin Lee, agrees with the FTC’s market definition of Xbox Series S / X and PS5 consoles as “high performance” BUT, included Nintendo Switch where FTC wanted NOT to count Nintendo at ANYTHING
-At counter-questioning, Microsoft legal team brought a document were Sony sees Nintendo as competitor, but it seems that FTC prepared Dr. Lee as he was very evasive on not sounding contradicting
-An scenario where COD is not available on Nintendo and other assumptions, Xbox would increase its share on Call Of Duty by 8.5%
Day 3 of FTC Preliminary Injunction request against Microsoft buying ABK 1st recap:
-The day opened with a pre-filmed deposition of SCE CEO Jim Ryan (he is currently in Japan)
-Playstation doubles wariness on having Microsoft with PS6 details/dev kits
-An email from Phil Spencer in August 2022 was the moment he knew things will not go well for Playstation if the transaction closes
-Acknowledge that was convinced that it was King and mobile studios the main target of the purchase
-Ryan told Bobby Kotick that wanted the deal blocked
-Jim Ryan contradicted on a meeting with Fidelity Investors in 2022 that he was wary of Xbox Game Pass business model claiming publisher are not sold, but at the same meeting was confident that the buyout wasn't about Call Of Duty
-Playstation 5 lost against Xbox Series X in the first three month of respective availability
-Economist expert as FTC witness, Dr. Robin Lee, agrees with the FTC’s market definition of Xbox Series S / X and PS5 consoles as “high performance” BUT, included Nintendo Switch where FTC wanted NOT to count Nintendo at ANYTHING
-At counter-questioning, Microsoft legal team brought a document were Sony sees Nintendo as competitor, but it seems that FTC prepared Dr. Lee as he was very evasive on not sounding contradicting
-An scenario where COD is not available on Nintendo and other assumptions, Xbox would increase its share on Call Of Duty by 8.5%