Sony is firmly in their Apple post Jobs era.
Release crap that doesnt change much for extreme prices and sell multi millions of them. General public associates games with playstation and they have won that mindshare.
So they will do bare minimum , it will be functional and good to a point but dont expect anything innovative or risky that tries to be different like theu used to.
Its just about appeasing investors and making sure profits are stable if not better.
Its just Apple. Boring, functional and expensive but wildly popular.
Can't hate on this opinion since it's mostly accurate Treble...
Regarding the "safe" and "boring" bets now, man, there's just no way I'll subject myself again to games like GOW Panderok, Horizon HW etc (and I haven't even played the Spiderman games) since everything feels so safe, so predictable, so boring, so...soulless that i just can't anymore.
I'm all for the typical PS cinematic experience® but not like this ffs.
On the other hand...these games cost them almost half a billion dollars man so it's obvious why they aren't taking any risks - i wouldn't risk it either, problem is,
they've been losing money since this GaaS initiative of theirs isn't working as expected (so far that is), Concord died prematurely, Marathon seems like it's DOA, and Fairgames is most probably gonna follow, so, what's next for them ?
Personally, I'd want them to return to doing what they were good at and that's good, single player focused games - and they don't even have to be 70+ hours of padded boredom like GOW Ragna, just some solid, 20-30 hours of gameplay would do.