Court Exhibit·22 FEB 2023
Phil Spencer and Jeff Fisher Exchange After Microsoft-NVIDIA GeForce NOW Deal
Captured days after Microsoft signed a ten-year cloud-gaming agreement with NVIDIA, this brief exchange between the heads of Xbox and NVIDIA's GeForce unit surfaced inside the FTC's lawsuit to block Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition — making private deal-making correspondence part of the public antitrust record.
Source document — Microsoft and NVIDIA GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming Agreement Email Thread · FTC v. Microsoft Corp. & Activision Blizzard · 3:23-cv-02880 (CAND), Doc. 161-7, filed 2023-06-21 (page 1)
Excerpt · In Phil Spencer & Jeff D Fisher's own words
Thanks, good outcome. I think there will be technical work to ensure a great user experience but I'm encouraged to see us work together to grow the market for cloud gaming. I love the innovation and investments nvidia continues to make here and I'm looking forward to more players getting to experience. I think there is more we could be doing so we should keep conversations going.
Also, thank you Phil for your voice in the EC meeting yesterday. We really appreciated your professionalism and insight in the hearing.
— Phil Spencer
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Hi Phil, I want to thank you and your team for working 24/7 to pull our cloud gaming agreement together. The community reaction has been awesome. We are looking forward to our joint work to offer Xbox games on GFN in the near future.
— Jeff D Fisher
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How this surfaced
- Source type
- Court Exhibit
- Case / record
- FTC v. Microsoft Corp. & Activision Blizzard
- Citation
- 3:23-cv-02880 (CAND), Doc. 161-7, filed 2023-06-21
- Date authored
- February 22, 2023
- License
- Public domain
- Original
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