All the Stadia inclusion really proves is that it’s a tiny market with no real audience that’s deeply hard to find footing in. The FTC called someone from Google Stadia to the stand to testify about cloud gaming, the reason the deal was blocked in the U.K.At one point, the FTC asked Sarah Bond if you needed a Windows key to stream video games (uh, you do not), in addition to not knowing how existing exclusivity arrangements are made and how many Sony itself has done over the years, and continues to do.
The FTC has shown a poor baseline understanding of the industry they’re trying to regulate here by killing this deal.They then tried to make him swear the same about other games, and the judge was so annoyed by them attempting to do that she cut them off. The FTC tried to “gotcha” Phil Spencer by making him swear under oath he would keep Call of Duty on PlayStation and future PlayStations.
