They claim that Sony’s methods in its home country could breach U.S.-Japan trade deals.
Usually when we talk about Microsoft and Sony in the same sentence these days it’s related to the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This time it’s not directly about that (even if this is probably a new tactic to get the deal approved in the U.S.) and is rather about Sony’s console business practice in its home country of Japan, which Microsoft believes could breach U.S.-Japan trade deals.
The issue has been raised by a bunch of members of U.S. Congress who are pressing the Biden administration to take action on the “imbalanced Japanese video game market, which we are concerned may be a result of a discriminatory trade practice that could violate the spirit of the U.
