Stellar Blade could end up like Bloodborne but then again Sony let Kojima Pro go multiplat with DS2 after funding them heavily. There's a lot that can happen in between but there is no way in hell it's ending up like Crash. 

Sorry, but you can't possibly explain why Shift Up wouldn't at least consider leaving Sony* if a 3rd party publisher steps in, pays them more than Sony is willing, and allows them to go full multiplatform.

Bloodborne is a Sony IP, and Death Stranding is made on a Sony engine. There are more similarities between Crash and Stellar Blade than your two other examples. And your reasoning as to why Sony stopped publishing Crash is objectively wrong. Crash wasn't "sold" until 2008 (merger with Activision).

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.

People diminishing this games success as if it doesn't count cause the MC is overly sexy and now because of people using mods is the most small minded shit I've ever seen. "OH, It's 3 million but it doesn't count cause blah gooner blah game" but the hypocrisy when compared to such sexualized games like BG3 (Whivh I love exists, I'll hopefully love the game too). I even seen a game where one of the reviewers who bashed stellarblade for it's sexylaity when propping up a game that's all about romancing household objects, the same person. What the fuck is the cultural issue here, something has gone wrong somewhere. And not to mention the hypocrisy that Eve is technically closer to an object that would fit in her inanimate object dating sim game cause she's an android. 

Shift up, Asian devs and the gamers that support them have won. Simmer down and accept that the media who want everything sexless and androgynous for some reason have lost their almost religious like crusade. I don't like the Grummz types either but the 3 million people didn't come from his or YouTuber in that space, relatively small followings. Stop trying to downplay this games success because it isn't something you don't personally like.

Anyway, people have spoken and said they want this and there is no way they would buy this in masses if the game was a shell for EVEs body parts, unless there was also a long substance and enjoyable game at the core. 

Yeah the ideological zealots on places like Resetera and Reddit are majorly butthurt over the game's success, because it goes against their puritanical, dogmatic belief that sexiness is evil and that everything has to be made ugly and sexless.

Yeah the ideological zealots on places like Resetera and Reddit are majorly butthurt over the game's success, because it goes against their puritanical, dogmatic belief that sexiness is evil and that everything has to be made ugly and sexless.

The game didn't get much flack on Playstation release, I don't think people are that offended by the sexuality as much as they're just coming to terms with their western-centric judgement on success being undermined. Similar situation when Ne Zha 2 became the highest grosses animated film of all time. Lots of disbelief but also dismissal because we in the west had never heard or it and didn't have it on our radar.

Similarly this game has essentially out performed all the titles Playstation owners have in large cconsidered to be better/more deserving in regards to the PC sales.

That's not true in the slightest. The amount of flack Stellar Blade received during the lead up to and shortly after the game's release on Playstation was absurd. The game little fan fair as Project Eve. Then goofballs like Alex Battaglia at DF started making silly comments and people started to pay attenion. Then you had supposedly profressional game reviewers accussing the games director of "never seeing a real woman before". The numerous nimrods on social media talking about how unrealistc Eve's body is despite her figure being scanned from two real life models. Shin Jae-eun and Yoon Seolhwa. The ridiculous backlash was actually one of the main drivers of game success. If the people that hated the game purely because of Eve's apperance had simply STFU, the game wouldn't have sold as well. The funniest thing is the vast majority of the people clutching their pearls at Eve's appearance had social media histories that showed them to be complete hypocrites. 

The game didn't get much flack on Playstation release,

That's not true in the slightest. The amount of flack Stellar Blade received during the lead up to and shortly after the game's release on Playstation was absurd. The game little fan fair as Project Eve. Then goofballs like Alex Battaglia at DF started making silly comments and people started to pay attenion. Then you had supposedly profressional game reviewers accussing the games director of "never seeing a real woman before". The numerous nimrods on social media talking about how unrealistc Eve's body is despite her figure being scanned from two real life models. Shin Jae-eun and Yoon Seolhwa. The ridiculous backlash was actually one of the main drivers of game success. If the people that hated the game purely because of Eve's apperance had simply STFU, the game wouldn't have sold as well. The funniest thing is the vast majority of the people clutching their pearls at Eve's appearance had social media histories that showed them to be complete hypocrites.