Sony could get in trouble for this issue.
the theme of the purchase of Activision Blizzard is leaving us quite a few headlines, and it is that this is ending up taking much longer than expected, mainly because of Sony, a company that is trying, in every possible way, that it does not take place. This is leading to a series of cross accusations between the two companies, as well as increased monitoring by government authorities, which are now starting to pay more attention to our sector, and especially to the different questionable policies that they carry out. certain companies.
Normally this type of news tends to be against Microsoft, but in this case we have a script twist that few of us could see coming, and is that as a result of all this Sony could start to have problems. You may be wondering exactly why they might be having trouble, and that is because their temporary exclusives are drawing a lot of attention, and not in a good way.
This could lead to ending investigating by parts of certain institutionsbeing this a quite serious problem for the Japanese company.
Some Japanese congresswomen would like to look into it
The most curious thing about this matter is that the problems could come precisely from the country where Sony is from, and that is that we are talking about a request from Japanese congressmen. Specifically, and as reported by Axios, 11 members of the Japanese congress reportedly called for an investigation about the exclusives that Sony would be signing with Japanese developers, with the aim of putting aside the Xbox version of certain renowned titles.
According to these congressmen, this could be a danger for the Digital Commerce Agreement between the United States and Japan, since Sony would currently have 98% of the “high-end” gaming market (so called, basically, because it leaves out Nintendo) in Japan, which they would have achieved thanks to these major deals, which have called for some of the best games ever to come to Xbox, when they could have from the first moment.
This is something that Microsoft itself has been claiming for a long time, and it seems that this kind of Sony policy may violate the antitrust laws of the country Japan, or at least that’s what these aforementioned congressmen say. Of course, this would only apply to this mentioned country, since most of the affected titles are Japanese games.