What an amazingly good point. Why not sell the studio off and give them a new home?
Sony would just love to have them and they did a superb job on the PS5 version of Ghostwire. Hell, even Nintendo could take the move with their new billions after the Switch's immense success.
Doesn't matter who would take over, point is why not sell? I guess that would mean Xbox not owning the IPs...?
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In the most cutthroat capitalist way possible, I'm sure it was more advantageous to close them outright (tax write offs?)
I'm not sure how Toys for Bob managed to get that treatment and be able to leave unscathed after the ABK acquisition (they didn't take any IP with them so that was a moot issue). Really shitty of Microsoft not to do the same here, regardless.
I feel like it's a combination of playing keep away with the IP and (within the broader context of the layoff deluge) part of a push towards gigifying game development.
I knew something was very wrong when Mikami left. Unsure he knew anything, i doubt it, but he is a veteran in the field and must have either just seen it coming or perhaps he got a feeling, or both.
How comitragedic is it that people actually believed the PR talk and thought MS was going to be cool.
Maybe this can lead to the team getting together and making a new studio not much unlike Platinum did after Clover.