I sadly agree. These are studios that had not hit home runs, at least not recently - or in the case of the Initiative, not ever yet.
Then again, if MS didnt buy some of them opportunitistically, they probably wouldnt be around next year.
All of these new studio additions aren't really for the current Xbox generation.
We saw pretty no software that the new studios are on, unless you count Forza Horizon 4, which Playground has been working on long before acquisition. This means that these acquisitions are really about...