A Microsoft executive said the company was willing to “remove Sony from its business” in an internal email sent in 2019 and now publicly available.
According to Blazetrends, during the ongoing trial between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft regarding the fate of Activision Blizzard’s acquisition deal has revealed an email exchange between Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty and Xbox Chief Financial Officer, Tim Stuart
The content of the email shows that Microsoft is ready to “take Sony out of business”. leaders In this context, many Microsoft are also involved, including Xbox CEO Phil Spencer as well as other company executives Amy Hood, Jarrett West, Chris Capossela, and Bill Duff.
“We (Microsoft) are in a great position to take Sony out of the business,” the email said. The rest of the answers revealed Microsoft executives wanted to “avoid a situation where Tencent, Google, Amazon or even Sony becomes the Disney of the game and owns most of the valuable content,” and It will be worth $2 or $3 billion in 2020 to avoid that.
Booty also mentioned the trajectory of Google and Amazon in the game market when saying: “Google is three or four years away from starting research and operation. Amazon has not performed well in-game content development. Content is seen as a vulnerability that Microsoft is experiencing, in terms of the catalog that works on existing devices and the ability to create new categories.”
Finally, Booty put PlayStation into the conversation saying that Sony is really the only competitor that can compete with Xbox Game Pass and that the Microsoft division is off to an impressive start, hitting 10 million subscribers in 2 years. year