Microsoft Wins Access to Internal Sony Documents Detailing Third-Party PlayStation Exclusivity Deals

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Sony has spent a lot of time trying to convince regulators that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard should be blocked, citing problems that include lack of parity with Call of Duty, but now it seems that the company may end up, as Xbox fans like to say, huge hypocrites. Following its subpoena to Sony earlier this year for confidential documents, a judge has now ruled that Microsoft can not only view what kind of exchanges Sony has had with regulators regarding the Activision deal, but also details of Sony's own exclusivity agreements with game publishers since 2019. According to a filing from the FTC, one of the arguments that Sony made was that providing the files would be too time-consuming and expensive.

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