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Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee | Epic vs Google (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fortnite firm says platform holders' hardware losses justify the need to charge devs for game sales and microtransactions

So, in other words, he's not suing them because they're not as profitable?

I feel like this really isn't going well for Epic.

[–] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe the strategy is to get Google to not fight very hard in this lawsuit due to their relative lack of profit from this situation, giving Epic a higher probability of establishing precedent, which they could use in future suits.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Alternate explanation: they want to side load their store, and that's way easier on a phone/tablet vs a console. Follow the money, suing Google and Apple is way more likely to be profitable than suing Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

But they can already side load their store on Android - they have done so since Fortnite first released for Android in 2017/18.