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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

From the article:

By shutting down a studio instead of selling it off or even letting it buy itself out, Microsoft ensures that no studio it has ever owned can become viable competition.

They benefit by killing off art and culture that could replace or take attention away from the art and culture they already control and profit from. They don't need to profit from it directly.

this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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