Congress members accuse Sony of unfair competition against Xbox in Japan.

Members of Congress are urging the Biden administration to take action on PlayStation-Xbox console competition in Japan, claiming that Sony's business practices in its native Japan are blocking US companies from competing in that country's gaming market and could be running afoul of US-Japan trade deals. Sony has had a steep advantage over Xbox in Japan for decades, though the secrecy around gaming contracts obscures the underlying causes. The pressure on Sony coincides with the Japanese company's own pressure on antitrust regulators to block Microsoft's $69 billion bid to buy Activision-Blizzard.