You’re not a very smart person are you?

The thing is - which period of Sony are you talking about? You’re definitely not talking about when Sony was selling consoles at a loss to drive Sega out of the market. You’re not talking about Sony’s 3rd party exclusives throughout Japan effectively blocking Microsoft. You’re not talking about Nintendo’s old…

The question is, do any of the original Devs/Artists/Designers remain?

That’s a fair criticism - but the problem is that the remedy for that is a Legislative one by changing the explicit text of the law. Judges get discretion where ambiguity exists. If a Judge is blatantly ignoring the text of a statute, that is vulnerable and likely to be lost on appeal.

That’s really the weird thing about Activision. If you actually look at the dormant IPs that used to move product and were put to sleep but could be reissued with a different concept - it’s incredibly rich. Activision has existed since the earliest computer games.

The same legal system that blocked the FTC is the same one that blocked Donald Trump’s elections claim.

If you want a good breakdown, there’s a tech website that rhymes with TheDirge that did a live breakdown of the case for all 5 days including how the Judge reacted to individual witnesses.

They’re being rightly grilled.

No - it’s literally in court Microsoft documented they would make less money making it exclusive then they would gain in Console sales. That argument was bought because most companies do not operate at continuous loss. Even the FTC’s projections didn’t stand up to court scrutiny.

So I’m not sure if collex will get around to this, but given my thoughts on this are pretty inline with collex, I’ll take a stab at these answers and collex can answer if they choose to.

This has been an absolutely fascinating foray into the mind of the court but also the gaming public.

Thing is - it’s the ACTUAL line. Yes, everyone who isn’t China looks at that and see’s it’s pretty absurd, especially towards the sovereignty of its neighbors. But that’s actually what’s been put forward.

I’d just accept that it’s essentially a different story with possibly a completely different emotional arc and move on with it.

I long ago learned that anything that’s in the transgressive bucket is just better to watch (if you’re into that sort of thing) and let critics sort themselves out because no matter how much you might like the critic, Ebert for example always got Lynch wrong..

I think the issue is the authors interpreted this prompt in an incredibly anti-American way. That is, rather than saying good and bad things about the country, this is the Black Mirror version where things were selected for their inflammatory or cynical value.

You could also make the case that Cyberpunk 2077 and its table top RPG are an outsiders, cynical take on the US. I noted this while playing where if I just wanted to write up Eastern European perception cliche’s of the US list, it felt like I was being pelted with them constantly.

It’s pretty simple for me anyway - the people who like him find his work compelling. It’s hard to have a conversation about it with people who define themselves by their dislike of Tarantino though, because his films don’t work IF you’re predisposed to not go along with the character journey. David Lynch and Kubrick…

I feel like the only way you could have made that game work is as Survival Horror.

Good for them.

What’s interesting to me is that this article and even your comment are arguing a point that Nadella didn’t make.