&gt; You can&#x27;t just make a game for new consoles and sell it in stores without going through Microsoft or Sony. Are they within their rights to restrict who can make what kind of games for their consoles?<p>I think they&#x27;re well within their rights to say &quot;nobody can brand something as Microsoft or Sony except us&quot;, because that protects consumers.<p>I don&#x27;t think they should be able to keep you from using the game system that you bought in whatever way you want. That includes reverse engineering it to design games for it or buying such games from someone else. They shouldn&#x27;t have to guarantee that such games will work, but they shouldn&#x27;t be able to keep you from trying, either.<p>Companies are way too quick to disregard consumer rights. You can&#x27;t decide what to plug into the system we made. You can&#x27;t decide what coffee pods to use with the coffeemaker we made. You can&#x27;t decide what bread to cook in the toaster we made.<p>You know what? Yes I can, because <i>I bought it and it&#x27;s mine</i>.