(Also as a side note, I find it wild how much Microsoft spent on Bethesda just to cut so many of those studios.)

It’s easy to understand when you realize that purchase wasn’t about talent, it was about IP.

Now sure, closing these studios and preventing the development of new exclusives is leading to Sony eating their lunch now, but longer/very short term it leads to them developing exclusives with their IP at a cheaper cost. It’s just all about cost cutting to make pretty line go up.