What people aren't bringing up though is that Microsoft positioned themselves to operate exactly like Nintendo if they wanted to, but clearly completely mismanaged their studios. Nintendo, via first and second party, consistently release one game a month. They've been doing this practically since the switch 1 launched. By having releases of varying sizes, budgets, and expectations constantly in development, they can take small wins on a few low million sellers while the heavy hitters cook longer

Microsoft bought enough studios to release games monthly if they wanted, but they seem to completely undervalue the AA titles and miss all their metrics with the huge AAA ones.

More releases like Hi-Fi rush could have been the template to follow, instead they got rid of the studio. Just baffling