Microsoft’s potential 2020 game plan: ‘Move Sony out of business’

Not a good picture for a company that is now trying to convince competition authorities that its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a good thing for the industry. But apparently, Microsoft insists that this is an outdated email and that it never actually carried out this particular “putting Sony out of business” strategy (despite, as mentioned, spending $7.5 billion on ZeniMax Media alone). a few months later).

In any case, this is the type of quote you will see on the internet for a while. Obviously, an executive’s choice of words in an email doesn’t necessarily reflect their overall organization, but the fact that such a strategy was mentioned might tell us all we need to know about Microsoft’s perception of the games industry. .

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(fountain theverge.com)