What can Nintendo and Sony gain from Microsoft's recent news?

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Lafiel said:

Bryank75 said:
What I don't get is: Why just close them down? It seems really spiteful and disrespectful to throw away the ip's and not allow some acquisition or just let it go independent like Sony did with SOE (now Daybreak Games).

the IPs aren't dead, MS can still use them or license them out

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they could snatch up some of the talent from those studios, but I heard MS is already in talks with the devs and the majority might simply go to other MS studios

That's the first I have heard about MS repurposing them to other studios. Would that allow for those studios to pump out more games or would it simply be more people working on Halo/Gears/Forza?