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A Bond, Booty, and Spencer email about Bethesda.
The FTC references a February 2021 email between Xbox’s Sarah Bond, Matt Booty, and Phil Spencer about how to announce the Bethesda acquisition.
“I want us to be bold in our announce of the Bethesda close, focus on Bethesda on Xbox,” Spencer wrote at the time. “I want us to get comfortable with saying... the acquisition of Bethesda is about making Xbox stronger. Our focus with Bethesda will be on the Xbox ecosystem.”
The FTC wants to know if Spencer had any other conversations with Microsoft executives about making Bethesda games exclusive to Xbox. “Exclusivity is a general topic in the console business, so it’s a constant conversation,” says Spencer.
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