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"idk, i'm uninformed, i have nothing to prove my thesis with, but all of that obviously can't be a set of mistakes" — is basically what you're saying. Why are you so sure, and why are you so keen on shielding Microsoft — one of the most bs corpos out there?
Not only your guess is incorrect, it doesn't even align with what i described.
Let me try to explin it again: the last game of Tang Gameworks studio was Hi-Fi Rush. Its release couldn't have possibly interfered with any other franchise Microsoft owns due to the simple fact, that it was released right after the very first announcement on the Xbox Game Show. Games that are presented on such shows, usually come out a month later at the very least. In other words, release window during any game show is always as free as it can possibly be.
Your suggestion doesn't align even if it was the other way around, as they released the game anyway. That was in january. The decision to close the studio was published in May. Again, despite the commercial success, which was achieved despite Microsoft's genious PR tactic (aka radiosilence until the game release).
Their current strategy is to sell user data. If their OS lacks in quality so much, that it becomes buggy and unusable, like in latest update release, not only they won't be able to collect the data because because the OS simply no longer works for users that had updated, but they'd also start losing their audience even faster than they did before, which means less data to collect and sell in the first place.
To be a successfull databroker, you have to be able to not only capture a aarge quantity of people, but also withhold them. The longer hou're able to do so, the better.
*With microsoft copilot, their product.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the fect that they force their coders to use ai, and this practice introduced so many bugs in production code, that now they reccomend their users to not update to the latest version of Windows, while hurriedly working on patches.