I put a lot of this blame on Microsoft/Freemium/Mobile for the huge shifts happening in consolidation, but with Netease/Tenecent it's inevitable.
It just sucks that Sony is forced to be this aggressive, when they were still trajectory wise growing teams/studios regardless.
And when I say blame I mean Microsoft is shit at managing talent. Since they didn't grow during Xbox one era to increase teams, make them better when projects failed, they rested on the same shit. So they had no other choice either to spin off xbox or spend insane amounts of money to invest in buying whole publishers like Bethesda.
I understand Bethesda wanted to be acquired. But this consolidation still blows.
Freemium/mobile more than Microsoft has ruined the space in my opinion.