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It's so funny to me how vigorously the internet defended Microsoft, a much much larger company than Sony, buying Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard, each much larger companies than Kadokawa.
Consolidation is bad for everyone except owners and I hope this doesn't happen.
Silver linings: at the very least this would probably result in the Bloodborne re-release people have been begging for. If it were Microsoft purchasing them I would expect a ton of immediate layoffs and maybe studio closure after a few years. While Sony has closed a couple of studios (mostly their own home-grown ones that were re-structured into other things) they seem more focused on actually using their acquisitions than just gobbling the IP and eliminating competition.
Kinda seems like only xbox fanboys were applauding it. I hate multiplatform developers getting bought and made exclusive.
It seems buying ABK made MSFT give up on exclusivity entirely