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Microsoft fires back at Sony.

Microsoft revealed earlier that PlayStation chief Jim Ryan knew its proposed Activision deal wasn’t about Xbox exclusives. “It is not an exclusivity play at all,” said Ryan in an email read out in court. “They’re thinking bigger than that and they have the cash to make moves like this.

Now Microsoft has fired back again. “Today showed Sony has known all along we’ll stand by our promise to keep games on its platform and made clear its work to lobby against the deal is only to protect its dominant position in the market,” says David Cuddy, general manager of public affairs at Microsoft, in a statement to The Verge.

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