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CTOnews.com, June 27 (Xinhua) in the court lawsuit between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission on the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, more internal information in the industry has also been disclosed, and the full email of Matt Booty, head of Xbox game studio, was released unreservedly during today's trial.

It is reported that in the email to Xbox CFO Tim Stuart, Matt Booty encouraged Tim Stuart to invest heavily in game content so that the company could compete with Sony through subscription services.

▲ Picture Source Xbox said: "We (Microsoft) are in a very unique position to put Sony out of business. We (Microsoft) can spend $2 billion or $3 billion in 2020 to prevent competitors from taking the lead in services in the future, so it's worth spending money to stop Sony, Google, Tencent and Amazon and make Microsoft the Disney of the gaming industry."

Meanwhile, in the letter, Booty analyzed Sony as the only competitor capable of threatening Microsoft to Xbox Game Pass services. He compared game content to a "moat", so only Sony had a chance to compete with it with its own subscription service in a short period of time.

CTOnews.com also noted that in response to inquiries from foreign media The Verge about the email, Microsoft said that "in any case, the company has never implemented such a strategy." David Cuddy, general manager of public affairs at Microsoft, said: "this email was three and a half years ago, 25 months before we announced the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, so it doesn't make much sense to discuss it."

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