Uh, you do realize Death Stranding sold millions and was a success, right? Also check out Twitch sometime. Loads of popular games on there that aren’t AAA blockbusters. Consumers do play the smaller games.

Man The Last Guardian for me is of very high quality. Would say better than any EA title.

Yes we know, on several accounts they are free to chose, but of course not everything get greenlit. Still Sony doesn't point and say do this.

Yes they do, just not all the time. Same as any other publisher. This is all in the article and has been confirmed by people who worked on Days Gone that David Jaffe interviewed.

1. I think for a PS fan you should realise that both go hand in hand, good business means continuity of the brand, and no SONY AA or AAA games without good business. Especially when you're main competitor has the second biggest cash reserve in the world that grows every quarter, and the minute they started taking the console business seriously, Phil snapped his fingers and Bethesda with all its IPs are now Xbox. It was cute to see PS fans believing SONY could win a bidding war against MS and buy SE lol. I know the story was false, but it's a good example if why SONY must be a good run business and grow organically as whatever chances they had at buying big third party studios have now completely vanished. Does that involve growing pains like decreased software output? Sure, but it's necessary if you don't want to be PS to be a third party machine, and that what it's been when compared to Nintendo's consoles. 

2. Maybe, just maybe, the reason that most of those IPs have stopped being made because of declining sales? Taking one of the examples you gave, we know Resistance 3 sold LESS THAN HALF of what Resistance 2 did in its first month in the USA, accordingly, we know that the IP was declining in popularity, not growing. If at one point SONY decides to give Resistance another chance, great, if not, I won't hold it against them, really. 

3. With that said, some (not all) of SONY'S IPs are worth revisiting and reviving. A lot of their games were diluted and experienced fatigue because of milking. For example, Twisted Metal is one of the games ever made, the IP has always had an immense potential, especially now with online gaming and games like PUBG being so popular. I believe we'll get a Twisted Metal entry this generation, and if my judgement is correct, it will be a good one because SONY's less accepting of mediocrity these days. 

And sure, maybe the IPs that you're interested in can make a great comeback, but unlike MS's resources, most companies resources are finite, so prioritisation is key. Besides, I feel like many are being purposefully ignorant of titles like Returnal, Sackboy Adventure, Astroboy. It's honestly not as black and white as many are portraying it be. Returnal over another Résistance any day of the week! And after Returnal, I, like many, expect Homesquare to be become a first party studio. 

Prioritisation and funding AA games that leads to organic expansion? what can I say but business well-run (might be too late, though!). And don't get me wrong, there is a lot of criticism to throw around at SONY, but not because they're not making more forgettable games. For instance, why are not talking about how PS NOW is playing catch up to xCloud when SONY was way ahead of the competition not so long ago, gg SONY, gg....

4. SONY Japan: Astroboy, yes, I agree. The good news? The team that made Astroboy is still with SONY, they were not let go. I never owned a Vita but I borrowed it for the sake of trying, and as someone who personally played Gravity Rush, good riddance, honestly  

As for you preferring more Gravity Rush than Nioh or Nier exclusivity. I get where you're coming from, but that's a terrible business decision for the PS brand as a whole. With Nier, you're taking about an IP that became bigger than Kingdom Heart under the PS umbrella and revenues that SONY must have shared with SE, I'd take that over Gravity Rush, easily.  You may not buy the PS5, but in the long-run, you'll become more appreciative of SONY's decisions as a gamer, I think.

Finally, I can't stress enough on how it's not as black and white as it's made out to be. The no more AA games narrative is baffling when the PS5 line up has Sackboy, Astroboy, Returnal, Demon Souls, Destructive allstars and Ratchet & Clank. I just can't. 

The only confirmation we got was that they were working on a pitch for of DG2, one I didn't know you were so eager to play, the one interviewed by David Jaffe from what I saw just said it and that he couldn't say or confirm anything else due to NDA.

Yes they do play smaller games, ofcourse there is a market for smaller games and will continue to be supported. But the guy was was talking about AAA games in the hundreds of millions.

Still a lot of false alarms caused