Details continue to emerge regarding Sony and Microsoft through documents presented by the companies during the lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission regarding the Activision-Blizzard-King deal.
Reported by Tom Warren of The Verge, one of the documents that caught the most attention, once it became public knowledge, is a confidential email sent by Phil Spencer to his colleagues at Microsoft. The leader of the Xbox division revealed that he has purchased a PlayStation 5but to have succeeded only through the bundles “forced” with Horizon Forbidden West.
Although at first reading it may seem like a simple curiosity, what Tom Warren reported is news that leaves room for reflections on the pricing policies adopted by Sony and Microsoft during the first years of the product’s life cycle. PS5 And Xbox Series. It is possible that, in this circumstance, Spencer was foreseeing Sony’s desire to increase the cost of its next-gen console, and that the competitor was somehow trying to “force” buyers to invest $50 more than the base price.
The price of the PlayStation 5 would then actually reach $549.99and the same decision would later be made by Microsoft with the Xbox Series X|S (both companies also respectively increased the costs of PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass).
