SIE Urges Court to Keep PS VR2's Secret Code Name Under Seal
Sony Interactive Entertainment, a nonparty to the FTC’s lawsuit to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy on antitrust grounds (see 2211010045), wants the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose to maintain the secrecy of confidential SIE information contained…
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in Meta's administrative motion that was filed provisionally under seal on Nov. 18, said its statement Friday (docket 5:22-cv-04325). The protected material includes SIE’s “internal-only project codename” for its unreleased PlayStation VR2, plus references to “a highly confidential strategy document that SIE uses to develop its competitive, marketing, and business strategies” for the forthcoming product, it said. SIE uses secret code names “to strictly limit internal disclosure of sensitive information, ensuring that discussion of a project cannot be traced to the specific product in development,” it said. “If this project codename were made available to the public, it would greatly increase the risk that other highly confidential material related to the PSVR2 could become public.” Public disclosure of the confidential information about the PSVR2 “would undermine the time and resources SIE has devoted to its product and marketing development, give competitors an unfair advantage in the marketplace, and disrupt the imminent commercial launch of PSVR2 in February 2023,” said SIE.