Because, up to this point, I do not believe Microsoft has gotten even close to the most from their IPs and the money it's taken to acquire them.
This is a hell of a lot of acquisitions with very little to show, IMO. Activision/Blizzard + Zenimax is over 75 BILLION USD.
Time will tell if they are able to buck the trend or if all this money is a sunk cost (I do not believe so, but Xbox/Microsoft needs to make waves NOW).
They’ve had over a decade to make something compelling and haven’t. You want to wait another decade before they start making hits comparable to Sony and Nintendo?
They didn't start making serious new acquisitions until late in the Xbox One life cycle. Up until then they were in a process of restructuring. And with many of those acquisitions came games that were in development and followed soon after. Since then, games have been in development, as development takes a lot of time. Games don't magically materialize from thin air in just a matter of a few years. New AAA games take a minimum of about 5 years to develop. And many of these studios grew significantly after acquisition. This presents additional challenges.
Sony has the benefit of having a more stable foundation for developing games. They have a number of studios who are pretty well oiled and efficient at this point. But there is also a reason why we only know of one game coming from Sony Studios next year and haven't even seen anything more than a teaser so far.
I'm simply being logical. I know when they finally started acquiring studios to develop content and how much time it takes to make content. I'm not saying that the Xbox One didn't go through an incredibly rough patch and that their major acquisitions from 2018, 2019, and up to today weren't able to have games ready for 2020 releases.
But they have over 30 active major studios making games. This is up from like 5 a decade ago. Games are coming. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise. Will they be good/great? We'll have to wait and see.
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Because, up to this point, I do not believe Microsoft has gotten even close to the most from their IPs and the money it's taken to acquire them.
This is a hell of a lot of acquisitions with very little to show, IMO. Activision/Blizzard + Zenimax is over 75 BILLION USD.
Time will tell if they are able to buck the trend or if all this money is a sunk cost (I do not believe so, but Xbox/Microsoft needs to make waves NOW).