Because at that level it has nothing to do with the actual studio or people. It’s just numbers on a spreadsheet to a team of accountants moving columns around so the final spreadsheet every 3 months looks as good as possible.
Normally without a sale like this, they would maintain IP rights to sell or use later by whatever studio they wanted to use. The studios are a tool to make the product, nothing more.
Because at that level it has nothing to do with the actual studio or people. It’s just numbers on a spreadsheet to a team of accountants moving columns around so the final spreadsheet every 3 months looks as good as possible.
Normally without a sale like this, they would maintain IP rights to sell or use later by whatever studio they wanted to use. The studios are a tool to make the product, nothing more.
Normally a company struggling with console sales would lean into an IP that could sway consumers, even if the game itself didn’t make a ton of money.
Sony pumps money into big IPs to do the same, at the expense of game profits.
You’re assuming microsoft still cares about selling consoles… at this point either they gave up on this generation, or they moved on altogether.
What I don’t understand is what the point was in buying all of these expensive studios if they weren’t going to compete.