Obviously a response to Microsoft's acquisitions and kind of funny that this studio once by owned by MS and Acti-Blizz ends up with Sony. Sony says they'll remain a multiplatform studio, but we all know that won't last forever.
Reminder that industry consolidation is a direct and inevitable result of big tech encroachment into gaming. Capitalism bad for games.
There’s a reason actually buying the game is only a small amount of the marketing effort and the rest is in loot boxes and other nonsense