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Report: Sony employees caught off guard by Microsoft cloud partnership

May 20, 2019

Following Microsoft and Sony’s surprising announcement of a cloud gaming partnership last week, Bloomberg has a bit of behind-the-scenes analysis that uses unnamed insider sources to explain how the deal came about.

Though Sony confirmed to Bloomberg that talks between the two console giants had been going on since last year, the announcement still caught rank-and-file employees at Sony off guard, according to Bloomberg’s sources. “Managers had to calm workers and assure them that plans for the company’s next-generation console weren’t affected,” as Bloomberg summarizes the view from inside the company.

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