Silly proposition. For starters, let’s not compare MicroSony and Nintendo in this regard. They are almost in different markets because their businesses are so different. Personally the less MicroSony are like Nintendo the better.
Secondly in a lot of these situations if big publishers don’t buy the studios then the studios will fail and cease to exist. Let’s say MS closes Compulsion, that sucks, but had they not bought them in the first place, they’d have shuttered years ago.
Same can be said for Ninja Theory, potentially even Obsidian. And plenty of the studios Sony has or are rumored to be closing. For every ABK deal where there seems to be no reason for a publisher to buy a studio, there are lots of deals that happen because the studios is looking to be acquired because they have no choice.
Feel free to criticize some of the strategies and practices of MicroSony management, but it’s always good for studios to not be closed down, even if it means being bought by a big publisher.
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