Who cares, how they do it. Give us good games one way or another, and the player in the end will have a good experience. Do you really think at end of the day a good or great game that gets made matters who made it? A good product is a good product, no matter if it is 1st or 3rd party. Where it really matters is if it is a product that is 1st party exclusive that console. If a 3rd party makes something exclusive and it is good, all everyone does is feel cock blocked if you cannot experience it on another platform. If it 1st party of high quality game, then now it becomes a selling point. A good game is a good game, period. If Microsoft goes and buys studios because the determine that is the best route to take, it is not as if they only did it that way, as they have made their own studios. The same can be said of Sony.
It seems a bit short sighted to say how they do it matters, when if the outcome is great product for a platform, then they have done a good job of making that platform more appealing in ways that drives interest to that platform. The only thing about 3rd party being bought to become a 2nd or 1st party for platform, is a war of words, drive platform pettiness, and those only in one console corner justify why their purchase is better than the one who didnt make the same choice. In the end, we all work hard for our luxuries, including being able to get a games console, and no one sets out to make this purchase for crappy experiences, or to wish they had made a different decision.
In the end, it doesn't matter, a experience is an experience. If it a good one, it is only fan boys who keep driving a narrative, while others spending time going fuck that was a fun game. Do you really ask yourself after a good experience.... Was it a studio bought, or a studio built from ground up?
Seems absurd.