To your third and fourth point, whose to say Arkane's funding didn't increase after MS's acquisition. Remember that Double Fine literally credit MS's acquisition for them being able to complete key things like the boss fights in Psychonauts 2, it was a game smaller in scope before that. And Sony doesn't have ownership of those IP, which makes it even worse in terms of them being locked to one console, at least with an acquisition, the expectations are different because of 1P association. If Sony buys Square Enix, it would be a lot less of an issue about their games not coming to Xbox.
Also, the whole CMA documentation/responses are about Sony not wanting CoD to become exclusive. How can anyone say Sony is not pretending exclusivity is good/bad.
Now you're just grasping at straws, has Bethesda a history of having trouble funding their games? You seem to have already forgotten what this thread is about, a PS5 version
was already planned here (prob worked on even).
Double Fine has nothing to to do with Bethesda and their studios. And from what i remember Double Fine was not doing so well financially and i have no issues with MS helping out these types of studios but we're getting out of topic.
I have a hard time believing you here. What you're saying makes no sense. The difference is SE will still release games on Xbox if MS really cared about their games
"cough FF14 cough" because Sony doesn't own them or their IP's. That's a BIG ASS difference. MS could right now go to SE and tell them we want this and that here's a bag of money. You really believe SE would say no?..... Anyways compare that to Bethesda and their massive fanbase on PlayStation, now owned by MS a direct competitor to Sony. Tell me now who dictates where
The Elder Scrolls, Fallout series,
DOOM, Wolfenstein, QUAKE........etc etc on which platform those games are going to end up on?
Your last sentence i won't even entertain....