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Valve and Sony Sued for Establishing Digital Monopolies with Their Stores May 8, 2021 09:00 EDT
Both Valve and Sony have been sued for establishing monopolies with their digital stores, respectively Steam on PC and PlayStation Store on Sony s consoles. This comes in the middle of the ongoing Epic v. Apple trial, where Epic is trying to prove that Apple does the same with its App Store.
Let s begin with Valve s class action, which was filed by Wolfire Games on April 27th in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington. A couple of days ago, Wolfire CEO David Rosen wrote a detailed letter to reveal exactly why he is joining the lawsuit. In short, he believes Valve is using its dominant position to enforce game developers to sell their titles for the same price on Steam and any other competing store, threatening to remove the game from Steam if a developer opts to sell it for a lower price on, say, the Epic Games Store or even their own store.
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May 6, 2021
On Wednesday, a consumer filed a class-action complaint in the Northern District of California against Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC alleging that Sony violated antitrust and unfair competition laws through its purported monopolization of the digital video games on the PlayStation Store.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff “brings this action on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated Class members who purchased digital video games on Sony’s PlayStation Store (the ‘Class’) between April 1, 2019 and the present.”
The plaintiff claimed that “Sony manufactures PlayStation, a line of video game consoles that launched in 1994 and has become one of the most popular video game systems in the world.” Reportedly, Sony has used the popularity of PlayStation to “build PlayStation into a multinational and multifaceted digital entertainment brand,” including the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Now, P