If the rumors were just about games released two years ago, you might have a point. The smoke trail is large enough that even The Village Idiot can make 2 times itself equal 4.
Well then Ms , Spend them out of bussinees you say, what happens when your game backfires .
Competition say's
yeah no thanks you can keep your exclusives.
This is the first gen i have not had to bother with and xbox it all started with that cyberpunk console release and has just went down hill form there. Thankfully saved my self £450 + stop the drama and concentrate on the games no one buys a console to end up with last gen games as good as bc is that gets you so far.
The most jarring thing to me is that they aren't firmly shutting this down. Which is something they should be doing if the rumors are more of a FUD campaign against them and aren't real. If an incorrect narrative is getting written they should say so, because this is poisoning their well in a very damning way.
Craziest thing is that the regulators gave them a 10 year window to play around with, since ABK was going to be business as usual for the duration of that period anyway on top of them firing nearly 10% of the workforce anyway.
The people to feel bad for here are the bean counters that eventually have to break the news to MS that 10yrs worth of content on PS from their studios not named ABK will probably equal less than a few years of the Xbox F2P money (think Xbox top ten sans Minecraft).