Your tinfoil hat is showing. I was an active member here last year; however, took a break as I grew tired of the biased moderation team and the hive mind mentality.
Interesting - never knew if was the developer, I stand corrected.
I do feel, given Sony's Martha Is Dead debacle, that there may have been some pressure, but all we can really do is take the source you provided at face value.
When it was an Xbox exclusive, the game was dragged through the mud and downplayed by the usual suspects but now all of a sudden they're acting as if Xbox shut down something they cared about simply because it's now available on PS.
Tango should never have been shut down but half of the rage on this site seems fabricated.
Closure of Arkane - understandable - they delivered flop upon flop.
People blinded by blue only look at the bottom line and see MSFT being overall profitable and think they won't shut down a studio that's hemorrhaging money are just wild.
They're a business, just like Sony, Nintendo, everyone else in the industry. Arcane Lyon failed to deliver.
Tango on the other hand should NOT have been shut down, that one is questionable ...