Can somebody explain how a company can just abandon their franchises like this?

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solidpumar said:

Please make a better OP next time, Your OP is incomprehensible.

On topic:
That is why Sony now requires completely ownership of all Intellectual properties developed by second party publishers, where Sony money is.

But there is the downside of making companies that want to own their own IP disgruntled, like insomniac, that doesn't own any of the Sony published IP (rachet and clank, resistence etc) and now went to microsoft as to make a self owned IP with Sunset Overdrive.

Well to be fair, they tried going multi-plat first, and that bombed.  So, they figured they needed a partner.