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Kyuu on 19 June 2025
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LegitHyperbole said:
Kyuu said:

The slight differences hardly matter. Sony does not own either the IP nor the developer. The developer can decide to self publish or approach another publisher for the sequel and go full multiplatform.

Once upon a time, Sony published Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Crash was pretty much Playstation's mascot, and yet it didn't take long for it to cut ties with Sony Computer Entertainment.

All I'm saying is Stellar Blade 2 won't necessarily be a Sony published game nor a Playstation console/timed exclusive, unless the developer is contract bound to work with Sony on multiple games.

Crash didn't move in the way you are implying, the IP was sold. Naughty Dog never made another Crash game. 

Wrath of Cortex (2001) was the first Crash game to go multiplatform. Ties with Sony were cut several years before Universal Interactive/Vivendi merged with Activision.

Sony will probably try to keep working with Shift Up, and good chance they will succeed, but it's not guaranteed.