Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee | Epic vs Google
Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee | Epic vs Google
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The lawsuit vs Google should have finished in the first 5 minutes:
Epic: Google charges very expensive to use their services
Google: we allow to side-load apps, you're not forced to use our store or our services.
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.
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.
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.
The ironic part is the one place their store is available (PC), it's such a pile of steaming crap that I don't even use it for the free games
But they can already side load their store on Android - they have done so since Fortnite first released for Android in 2017/18.