Microsoft was ready to “go spend Sony out of business” to strengthen Xbox | The Verge

It's not a matter of money, they have the money pool to do both (and they do). It's about controlling as much of the market as they can by killing all competition, just like they did on the OS market.

You're right, that's why capitalism needs oversight.

I think Companies should be too afraid of punishments to ever say something like this out loud, let alone write it down.

I mean, in Context the whole E-Mail is way less terrible than the headline (as is tradition) but if it were up to me, I'd still like to make toeing the line like that quite painful.