Billionaire Tim Sweeney, who founded Epic Games Inc. and created money-making games like Fortnite, delivered an unexpected gaming gaffe in his court fight against Apple Inc.’s App Store: He struggled to plug a controller into the Nintendo Co. Switch gaming console during his testimony.
Epic has to prove that the App Store is a monopoly that limits choices users have to play games across devices, including billions of iOS devices, to win its antitrust suit. Epic’s lawyers brought in an iPhone and a Nintendo Switch video game console to show it’s easier to play games on smartphones while a user is on-the-go.
