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You seem to get my point about the lack of specificity in the article about which companies and which walled gardens it actually applies to. That being said, w
by musicale 4y ago
You seem to get my point about the lack of specificity in the article about which companies and which walled gardens it actually applies to.
That being said, where specifically in the legislation does it clearly exclude walled-garden game stores and systems?
It seems very likely that Microsoft qualifies as a gatekeeper by market cap and user base (Sony as well.) But are there more than 10K Xbox game devs in the EU? Quite possibly, since anyone can create and publish a game through Xbox Live Creators Program. By requiring those games to be distributed exclusively through the Xbox Store (and a specific section of that store), Microsoft is ostensibly exercising its gatekeeping power to restrict the business of thousands of game developers and their access to millions of customers.