Great for consumers.
Had a feeling this would be the case - the companies are branching out to different ways to get more money due to expensive costs.
Microsoft/Xbox went their way to buy out IPs/companies so they can get the share of the profit they could make from the games that were released or will be released
Sony/Playstation sort of did that but in a smaller portion compared to MS/Xbox except they are branching out to another aspect of the entertainment industry - movies/tv shows/animation - which is why they own crunchyroll/funimation.
Nintendo's doing way more than people expect them to do a decade ago branching out their IPs to make deals like with merchandise such as toys, collectables and into mobile gaming with third party partners (something which pre-2010 you no one would expect them to do) along with making movies.
Its a great time to be a consumer and I'm loving it.
