So the solution is to keep buying more studios and ips? When they already have more studios then sony, have more money then Sony and Nintendo combined and shit ton of ips.
Not the only solution but most likely the fastest one, yeah.
Sounds like a total failure of the existing leadership if they can't compete with already having more resources then the competition. Maybe it's time to see why the existing leadership can't do their jobs?
They only got to have more studios than Sony recently, and it's still at the point Sony's exclusivity contracts are still in effect for games from those acquired studios. It doesn't matter how many studios MS own when Sony have their games locked away.
MS could have got more third party games locked away from playstation if they wanted, so maybe that is a failure of leadership, but it's a much better use of money to just buy the developers who make them instead. We'll see what turns out to be the better strategy in 10 years.