Sony purchasing any large third party publisher makes absolutely no sense. Unless they decide to completely change their strategy and go fully services and multiplatform. 

What you're seeing is how they're choosing to spend the cash- Timed deals, marketing and the expansion of their own first party studios.

Please.

Poor in relation to what? The competition or their own previous spending?

Would i have an issue if Sony brought Capcom or Square? I wouldn't have an issue if Sony brought any company out, would i be disapointed that i can no longer play those games, of course.. but it is what it is, its buisness. These are not corparate take overs, these are companies willing to be purchased.

Buyouts isnt just a console industry thing, its a world wide buisness practice. Companies invest to grow. Timed exclusives only exist to force peoples hands or to miss out. Buying studios is a major investment for long term success. To me, thats a massive difference. But to each there own.

There are options to terminate contracts if necessary, and MS has the resources to do so. Zenimax deals, probably not until the deal has been made however all the other games that jumped to other platforms could have easily been canceled. This happens all the time in other industries. 

Proof, Epic Games canceled Metro Exodus from Steam 1 week before its release, and they dont even own the IP or studio.

Well ya, they are honouring the existing contracts. Grounded I think is the first game from their new studios. I can certainly argue Xbox never had the budget or full backing of MS as a whole. Poorly managed in the past you got that right though. 

Point being you can’t just build studios when you have a lacking games narrative. It’s scrappy and competitive when the underdog does it. When the winner does it it’s just tightening their grip. 

Shows it can happen. We dont know the contract details but Ill be sure majority of games would have similar agreements on consoles, i daubt there would be heavy restrictions on 3rd party games with no influence from major console makers.

Nope you didn't understand the point. Even if all the games from all the studios MS bought were shifted to be exclusive (let's ignore that can't be made) it wouldn't mean MORE games for Xbox as you claim, all those games were already going to Xbox anyway.

MS had 6 years in the gen to build these studios, what they done? On the last year of the gen they bough 15 or so. Please don't insult our intelligence saying they didn't had time to build studios.

If you made a contract and paid for it you can be sure there is a lot of restrictions. And usually purchase of companies have a clause that the new owner will honor all current contracts.

There will be restrictions in place and penalties will be applied when breaking contracts. However its not impossible. Reimbursements and penalty fines can take place. However if the penalty is not worth it, companies will just honor it, which are cases like Deathloop.

We are talking about two different contracts. I am referring to the normal game releasing on multiple platforms, not paid timed exclusives, however contracts can be broken, might be costly but never impossible. 

Games like Wasteland 3, which is 100% owned by MS, there is no binding contract where the game had to release on PS4 (From what we know of) however the game still released on that platform, MS could have easily turned there nose up at the PS console and changed where the game lands if they see benefits. Minecraft is another game which MS owned, they don't have any binding contracts keeping Minecraft on the PS consoles, they can easily remove the game from the PS store if they see fit.

Timed exclusives are obviously a lot harder to nudge as they are locked, so companies will just honor the deals instead. That's why i used Metro as my example. Game was changed in its final week as Steam had no say or rights to where the game releases on, even after people paid for pre-orders on Steam.

Ah I see. Going exclusive means that they would in theory deny Sony. Goes back to my initial statement that being 1st party supersedes any complaints. Being 1st party it makes about as much sense to complain as me complaining why I can’t play Sony 1st party on Xbox. 

They technically started this initiative in 2018. The time before that sure, Xbox scraped by.

Yep. It didn't add to Xbox, but sure can take away from PS, and competitively speaking it have its merit. Was just pointing that if the objective was bringing more games to Xbox them they would need to open new studios instead of buying ones that would already make games to MS.