Sony Hit with French Fine for Allegedly Manipulating PS4 Controller Market
Sacrebleu!
France's antitrust regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, has handed Japanese tech giant Sony a fine of 13.5 million Euros ($14.8 million) after finding it used its dominant position to corner the market, specifically in the realm of third-party PS4 controller manufacture.
Competition Policy International/Pymnts (thanks PSLS) reported that Autorité de la Concurrence said Sony's implemented technical measures made it extremely hard for third-party controller manufacturers to compete. The body found that the only controllers that reliably worked on PS4 were Sony's DualShock 4 and other officially licensed controllers. Several issues, including frequent disconnections, plagued all others.
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