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Cerebralbore101 1 day ago
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curl-6 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

I love how back in 2019 multiple users, including mods and site staff ardently defended Microsoft's acquisitions trying to compare a 100 billion purchase of major multiplatform titles to Sony or Nintendo's small-time purchases of long term 2nd party partners. Sony buying Insomniac, Santa Monica, etc. is nowhere near the same as MS buying Actiblizz and Bethesda, etc. And during that whole time I constantly claimed that it wasn't financially making money no matter what MS's books said. Now, 7 years later the writing is on the wall and those users, mods, and site staff are curiously absent from these forums. Hilarious. 

While the MS acquisitions were indeed a shitshow, Sony didn't just  do "small-time purchases of long term second party partners", they also bought up some significant studios only to shut them down or lay off a lot of the staff. (Firewalk, Neon Koi, Bluepoint, Bungie, Firesprite)

Bungie was 3.6 billion and made one game franchise. Actiblizz was 70 billion and made multiple game franchises. Still an apples to oranges comparison, which MS defenders ignored. What did the other studios make or do? Honestly, I only recognize Bluepoint for the ports and remasters.