Well John Garvin was let go because he couldn't adjust to having a bigger team. He admitted himself in his interview with Jaffe that he would lose his temper often, and that this didn't change even after undergoing training to control himself better. 

It's unfortunate, but Bend couldn't remain a small team forever. 

Considering the high sales of the game, I think Sony should give a sequel reconsideration. The fact that 9+ million people have played/bought the game means that the sequel could do a lot better at the full retail price than the first game did.

I already agreed to the point of the playerbase, which appears to be over 9 million. 

I said if only 4 million bought it at full or near full price it surely would be enough to warrant a sequel. 

Tomb Raider was a milked franchise that had gone through a rough decade by the time the reboot come out. It was starting from a worse place than a new ip. Sony new IPs, especially the 3rd person story driven ones are almost always good sellers. Been that way since the ps3.

So yeah... The comparison is surely in the favour of Days Gone. 

Yeah, that's my bad. I misread the 'If only half' sentence of yours. 4 million still strikes me as small though, but I suppose room for growth at least exists.

Alternatively, I don't think it really matters about TR's situation: TR is still TR, and there'll always be an existing need/ want before a game is even announced. Sort of like Sonic. There's no real indication that there's a sizeable demand for a DG sequel. And it's performance is ultimately not that fantastic in the face of Sony titles.

That said, it has come to our attention anyways that Sony never even received the pitch in the first place. DG2 got as far as upper management at Sony Bend, who decided to kill it. So, I guess we'll never know if Sony would've let Sony Bend continue with the IP or not.

We have more context for this: Sony Bend denied the pitch, not Sony. As to why Sony is not talking about DG's sales: because there's been zero intention to make a sequel (since 2019) so it slowly getting to 8 million is kind of meaningless. 

6 years of development time and sells less than a lot of their other AAA titles. That and being on two full platforms on top of getting mixed reviews. A large sum of  sales were also at discounted prices. While GoT has stay pretty much remained close to full price since launch; on PS platforms and will sell more throughout the duration of the PS5 life and when it eventually makes it way to PC. And has good critical acclaim.

For Sony it probably made sense to just drop it and I can't really blame them. Days Gone released buggy and lacks the polish of what people expect from Sony first party. Imo I'm glad as I wasn't fond of the Days Gone and much prefer that Bend worked on something else - which they are.

working on a game for six years pouring money until it launch , i mean working on something for six years must of cost sony many millions , I guess this applies to scalebound too took to long , Microsoft bled.

First, SIE management had no decision in DG2, now we know the 8 million sales figure is based on random estimate plays and not official sales data.

Jeff Ross is a clown confirmed.

Can't be small and keep doing big AAA, even more when you see the results you were getting before increasing and improving.

Seems like a buffon that when what he wanted didn`t got its way decide to complain to anyone wishing to listen.

And from what we have been hearing David Jaffe have been doing the same after he left Santa Monica.