Delusional, blind fanboys like yourself will always use the false equivalence of trying to compare acquiring studios to acquiring publishers. But I’ll exercise my own delusion in trying to get you to understand the following basic concept:
Sony acquires Insomniac and invests in them, Insomniac grows into one of the best developers in the industry right now with cutting edge tech, Sony’s biggest IP in Spider-Man and more developers, more jobs, more games. Net win. Insomniac has a long history of developing PlayStation games and their partnerships with EA (Fuse) and Microsoft (Sunset Overdrive) were not remotely as successful as their PlayStation games.
Microsoft acquires Bethesda, an entire publisher, and so far all there is to show for it is less games on PlayStation. Microsoft then acquires Activision. Net result is major franchises leaving PlayStation and I’m willing to bet that not one single franchise will grow or studio will evolve, and instead these games will follow most of Microsoft’s other IPs and diminish in quality and audience.
Let’s see how it goes then. But the least you can do is activate some of your brain cells.
Also, if you read the quote he says he’s concerned about smaller studios being absorbed into larger enterprises making a bigger game, thus losing the smaller studio. Insomniac has become bigger than ever, they didn’t disappear into some subsect of another major Sony developer. His concern is about creativity lost.
