That would be my guess at this point. Either Sony hatted the sequel and extended their hat on the first game, or there are acquisition talks happening and the devs won't risk porting to Switch or Xbox until the talks come to a conclusion (with a likely port if the acquisition falls through and exclusivity obviously remaining if Sony acquires them). 

If they're smart they'll bring back Shawn Layden, the guy who actually knew what he was doing.

Thank God he is retiring so we don't run the risk of Xbox stupidly hiring him to run ABK or something.

Jimmy boi coasted off of the success of his predecessor anyway.

Aww man, we were about to see all the fruits of Jim Ryan's labor

I kept saying that Jim Ryan has been coasting by on Layden's projects. We get to the point where we see Jim Ryan's projects, mainly GAAS, and he leaves.......

Feel like that would come at a high risk of collusion no? lol. 

Dude tanks the deal for Sony then joins as new ceo ooof. 

Sounds like when Peter Moore gave a ton of Sega games to Xbox only to then run Xbox immediately after leaving Sega

Exactly, all of their successes were irons that were in the fire before Shawn Layden lost the rumored power struggle against Jim Ryan. Looking at the projects that are actually Jim Ryan backed, and we mainly have GaaS, GaaS, and more GaaS. We've got the GaaS multiplayer The Last of Us thing which is been cooking for like 3 years and still hasn't been announced, with a rumored setback causing a delay just earlier this year. We've got the Jade Raymond studio GaaS game called Fairgame$ which had an awful reception on announce with 3.3k likes and 13k dislikes. We've got the Concord multiplayer game from Firewalk, which wasn't that much better received than Fairgame$ with 2.5k likes and 4k dislikes. We've got that Playstation handheld streaming thing which seems almost certain to flop due to overpricing for it's feature set. Basically the only singleplayer first party game that Sony has announced out past Spider-Man 2 right now is Wolverine, from Insomniac just like Spider-Man 2. And due to recent release schedules and game development taking longer than ever before, their next 1st party singleplayer game other than Wolverine might not be until 2025 or possibly even 2026. Were it not for 2nd party deals and 3rd party hats, the 2nd half of this generation would be looking pretty bleak for Sony due to a major lacking of singleplayer games. 

Best thing he did was that shambolic testimony which killed part of FTC's arguments.

Bring back the fun vibes!

He did seem good at his job of making money but like G2 said, who knows how much of that is down to Layden's projects, Jim's seems to be filled with GAAS and it remains to be seen how a lot of those turn out, PS5 continues off the brilliant success off PS4 as well. Anyway, the dude had the vibe of a complete corporate suite and a bit of a dick.