FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
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Matt Booty says his thinking about keeping Xbox content exclusive has changed since the days of “no effing way” in 2019. (I’m not sure if attorneys are bowdlerizing “fucking,” or if that’s literally what he wrote.) His explanation — in response to a question from Judge Corley — is a commentary on the streaming wars:
“I think we’ve seen that while content is absolutely important to a strategy, it really isn’t a durable advantage that others can enter a field and others can build a content library relatively quickly.”
His example is Disney Plus competing with Netflix — where he argues Disney has been able to ramp up its library quickly. And, obviously, it’s a way to downplay the idea that Microsoft will make Activision Blizzard games exclusive if the deal goes through.
