Microsoft had intended to"spend Sony out of business", Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty wrote in an email dated from 2019.
Booty went on to summarise the competition and state the need to avoid a"situation where Tencent, Google, Amazon or even Sony have become the Disney of games and own most of the valuable content". "Content is the one moat that we have, in terms of a catalogue that runs on current devices and capability to create new. Sony is really the only other player who could compete with Game Pass and we have a two year and 10m subs lead.""This email is three and a half years old and predates the announcement of our [Activision Blizzard] acquisition by 25 months," Microsoft general manager of public affairs David Cuddy told.
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