Who says that Sony doing more cross-gen games is a negative? 1: As a PS4 owner who decided to wait on a PS5 Slim, I see Sony embracing cross-gen more as a positive.

2: You definitely neglected to list some positive Sony threads I posted in that same month, 3: not to mention that I've posted many, many threads that have nothing to do with the so called "console warz". As I've told people before, I post a thread for any news  I find interesting that doesn't have a thread on VGC yet. 

Because it's a news thread, I try not to offer my opinions in the OP of a news thread. If I do post an opinion, I do it in a later post of said thread, like those examples you posted. 

You already answered point 2 yourself by digging up the 3 positive Sony news pieces you didn't put on your first list. And my answer for point 1 also answered point 3, I posted my opinions on those news pieces after the OP, which is perfectly acceptable, since I was not presenting my opinion as part of the news in any of those cases.

I personally don't think that saying I prefer the Xbox Series start up sound to the PS5 start up sound is a negative Sony opinion, we're all allowed to have personal preferences, it's not like I said that the PS5 start-up sound was a terrible ear shattering cacophony or something, I just said I prefered Xbox's sound as well as the fan made PS5 start-up sound. I honestly had never heard of Travis Scott before, and then noted how popular he was, with 50m+ record sales (a good thing for Sony), while my personal opinion that Snoop is a bigger deal than Travis for me personally was just that, an opinion based on knowing and prefering Snoop. And my joke about the PSN outages was just that, a joke, though it was based on my personal experiences with PSN over the last 3 years of being a PS4 owner (PSN does go down far more frequently for me, and I can't even use media apps like Netflix when it does go down, which has frequently forced me to switch to my Xbox for nighttime tv viewing). As for me saying that MS hadn't paid for timed exclusive DLC since the FIFA deal in 2013, I forgot about The Division's DLC when I said that, though it was the last timed exclusive DLC for Xbox to my knowledge, and Phil has specifically spoken out against the practice of timed exclusive DLC in several interviews since 2016, which is a good thing, I wish Sony would stop the practice as well.

2: I personally don't think that saying I prefer the Xbox Series start up sound to the PS5 start up sound is a negative Sony opinion, we're all allowed to have personal preferences

There, you just cracked the code for smart gaming. No game or system is worth buying at launch price. If more people where patient, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't have $70 games now.

And then all those developers experiencing crunch time would have their bonuses and salary slashed, many would lose their jobs and those remaining would have even more work consolidated into their day to day workload. When you hurt a business' finances, the billionaires aren't the ones suffering. It's the working class that suffers. In this case, even at $70, games aren't making what they made back in the 80's (if you count inflation) and are certainly more proportionally expensive to develop now. So if we were to all do as you suggest, we'd either have an overstressed, shrinking, underpaid workforce making games compared to what we have now, or games will start seeing significantly lower budgets and won't be nearly as grand as we expect them to be. Which of those two options would you pick so that you can save that extra $10-20 (or whatever you deem a reasonable price) per game?

Personally, I wish games would become more expensive so that anyone in software development can be more properly compensated for their high-demand, crunch-time-style jobs.

What? Bobby Kotick is one of the richest persons in the world, while Activision employees choose the cheapest meal in the office canteen, because that's what they can afford. 10$ less for each Activision game can be payed by Kotick and he would still be one of the richest persons. You have it wrong: if a company flourishes or struggles, the workers get paid the absolute minimum. You don't get more money in the pockets of the devs if you support price hikes on games, the only way is to support unions for game devs.