Also the video game console market which is made up of Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony are not experiencing developers claiming anti-trust issues.
The game console market is 4 decades old. The era of litigation for how the platforms are structured is over, and all the players have generally accepted the current closed platform nature of game consoles and the business arrangement between platform owners and developers. A developer who wants to claim antitrust will therefore have a rather uphill battle to overturn settled cases, a 20 to 30 year old history of accepted business practices, and is probably not worth the effort.
It does bring up the question if there could be a new entrant in the game console market that is an open platform, but the window for is likely closed now with network streaming of games starting to become a reality. Steam really couldn't make it work with their Linux-based SteamOS. Anyways, server based gaming and web based PWA will be the next frontier, so it's really all water under the bridge now. The big thing for the future is to ensure web technologies don't become proprietary to some company.
Personally, I expect Epic to fail before the court but still serve to influence the FTC and/or DoJ investigations into anticompetitive practices. Put another way Epic will lose this battle but not the war, as least not yet.
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It does bring up the question if there could be a new entrant in the game console market that is an open platform, but the window for is likely closed now with network streaming of games starting to become a reality. Steam really couldn't make it work with their Linux-based SteamOS. Anyways, server based gaming and web based PWA will be the next frontier, so it's really all water under the bridge now. The big thing for the future is to ensure web technologies don't become proprietary to some company.