Microsoft was ready to "spend Sony out of business" back in 2019

A Microsoft executive has revealed the company was ready to "spend Sony out of business" via an internal email sent back in 2019.

As revealed during the ongoing FTC and Microsoft trial - which will decide the fate of the Xbox Activision Blizzard deal - an email exchange between Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty and Xbox CFO Tim Stuart reveals the company was once prepared to "spend Sony out of business."

Booty also discusses Google and Amazon's trajectory into the gaming market (bearing in mind this was said back in 2019) adding: "Google is three-to-four years away from being able to have a studio up and running. Amazon has shown no ability to execute on game content. Content is the one moat that we have, in terms of a catalog that runs on current devices and capability to create new."

Finally, Booty brings PlayStation into the mix by saying: "Sony is really the only other player who could compete with Game Pass and we have a two-year and 10M subs lead."

Elsewhere in the trial, the FTC declared the console war winners.

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