[VGC] Internal Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate PlayStation

[Neuromancer]

Capitalism is 'make the better product and the market will decide the victor'
Late-Stage Capitalism is 'Have enough money? Buy the competition, destroy or assimilate all their improvements; the market doesn't even get a chance until we've eaten first'. It's actually funny how little Late-Stage Capitalism actually meshes with the original ideals of capitalism in of itself, but folks will cognitive dissonance handwave it away because it suits them.

...kinda like how all these conservatives can hold desperately to things specifically spoken against in their bible.

...like capitalism. The bible pretty much is against that too.

But lemme stop. The religion of America is LSC masquerading as an economic policy.

I should have clarified "Late stage capitalism."

Thank you for the correction.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Black Mamba]

Saw this
Had to un ignore the forum
fukking c*nts eh

Acting like teddy bears for the world but being conniving little c*nts like cersei lannister
We was never fooled though.
Sony is going go kill Xbox and its going to be beautiful when it happens

 

[The Mad Titan]

Phil and Matt the same person now?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

"We can't grow unless we're allowed to consume every 3rd party publisher in the industry!"

 

[Animal House]

That’s corporate America for you who cares

 

[daze23]

The private anti-trust action, which was brought by ten video game players in the US, argued that the $69 billion deal could substantially lessen competition or create a monopoly in violation of the Clayton Act.

The lawsuit was initially dismissed in March after District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley found it failed to present sufficient evidence to support their claims.

However, the plaintiffs later filed an amended lawsuit containing redacted information from Microsoft, including a strategy memo, and new information provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

As spotted by Axios, a key piece of the plaintiff’s evidence is alleged to be an internal e-mail they say was sent by Microsoft’s head of Xbox game studios, Matt Booty, to Microsoft’s chief financial officer for Xbox, Tim Stuart.

The purported internal Microsoft email is described as “uncontroverted evidence that Microsoft had the intention to put its main competition, the Sony PlayStation, out of the market.”

The passage is said to be from ‘Exhibit K’, one of the sealed documents that the opposing lawyers have been debating.

In legal documents, Microsoft describes the email as an “internal exchange” that should remain sealed and claims it has no bearing on the court’s decisions.

The lawsuit is separate from Microsoft’s defence against the US Federal Trade Commission, which is currently seeking a preliminary injunction to block the Xbox maker from acquiring Activision Blizzard.

A group of self-identified gamers have renewed their legal challenge to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard following an earlier setback.

Last December they filed a complaint in a federal court in California, arguing that the $69 billion deal could substantially lessen competition or create a monopoly in violation of the Clayton Act.

The private anti-trust action, which was brought by 10 video game players in California, New Mexico and New Jersey, was dismissed in March after US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley found it failed to present sufficient evidence to support their claims.

However, the plaintiffs were given 20 days to refine their legal challenge and have now filed an amended lawsuit containing redacted information from Microsoft, including a strategy memo, and new information from the deal’s chief opponent, Sony Interactive Entertainment.

A Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters the amended complaint contained “unsupported and implausible claims about the deal’s effect on competition” and that the acquisition would “bring more games to more people”.

Sony Stans

 

[Rekkapryde]

Sony Stans

Lol at "it should remain sealed".

Dumbasses shoulda never documented it from the jump

 

[The Mad Titan]

And they wonder why the judge threw it out

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

And they wonder why the judge threw it out

 

[Black Mamba]

And they wonder why the judge threw it out

It don’t matter we know what tall xbots about
Hide and throw rocks fukking cowards

 

[daze23]

they should expose a few words so we can really have fun trying to figure our what it says

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Wonders why the mods ain’t throw this in the catch all thread

 

[MeachTheMonster]

And they wonder why the judge threw it out

Dumb ass sony stans, make a fool of themselves at every step of the way



Stan desperate losing lawsuits brehs

And that VGC reporter guy already been exposed as a sony marketing arm.

Jim ryan sent this nikka out to rile y’all up

 

[Black Mamba]

Dumb ass sony stans, make a fool of themselves at every step of the way

We finna enjoy ff16 while
This ting finna be a blimp while yall stressing with still no games