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FTC lawyer confirms that Disney had a deal for an Indiana Jones game that'd be for multiple consoles. Hines confirms that the deal was amended post-acquisition to be Xbox only for consoles (twitter.com)

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[–] monk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Halo and Mario are awful straw men to bring into this.

You are saying Indiana Jones should be on playstation. I am saying spiderman should be on Xbox.

They are both both Disney properties, if one isn't allowed to be exclusive because it's unfair, why should the other?

Disney agreed to both deals. Your point of "making a cross platform game exclusive" is arbitrary. It's not like they made a game, released it, and then took it away. They had plans and they changed. Like every software project ever.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is all missing the point, this is a case against Microsoft building a monopoly in the gaming industry. It doesn't matter if Nintendo or Sony have exclusive games, if Microsoft is allowed to just keep gobbling up studios & IP, they can simply choke out the competition.

Additionally, Microsoft made a big hoopla about how they're not going to make AB games like CoD exclusive specifically to shield themselves from antitrust lawsuits, but this goes to show that behind the scenes they're going to do as much as possible to consolidate power.