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Some of you are reading to much into this seriously, politician love those kinds of stats to have a foothold during trade talks, there's nothing new to this and those stats were made public just over a few weeks ago. A lobbied effort from MS on this is plausible but not a necessity and even in the case it is it would only be a fair shot to use Sony's own arguments against themselves with a performative stunt.
Kind of ironic how much people agree this will be of no benefits for MS while also attributing this to some low end tactics on MS parts to benefits themselves.

More likely that the actual target is the FTC, which as a very anti Big Tech stance right now, by creating diverging political interest between the FTC and Congress and help them get the FTC to the table rather than in court. This is supported by the fact the FTC is already using and may further on it's uses of delay tactics for what every expert consider an already lost court case battle.