I just want the PS studios owned by Sony to be managed better, like how Insomniac has been managed and releasing games.
It had nothing to do with being "better managed".
Insomniac releases games more frequently than the rest because they always had 3-4 development teams working in different games working at the same time since generations ago, while most of the other PS Studios owned stdios only had a single development team in previous generations.
The Insomniac games aren't released faster, they take the same time to be developed than the other ones. They simply had more teams.
In recent years, during the Hermen + Jimbo era, SIE grew all their internal teams, so now studios like ND, SSM, Polyphony or Guerrilla (plus Bungie or Firesprite, who already were before being acquired even if back then were smaller) are working on multiple games at the same time.
But AAA games nowadays take around 5-9 years to be released, so these new teams created a year or a handful years ago still need time to release their games.
Some people like to count it as a PS studio game because they use Guerilla Engine. I mostly mean PS studios who are owned by Sony.
Death Stranding, like Helldivers 2, is a first party PS Studios game because these games are published by the first party publishing label PS Studios.
Sony doesn't own Kojipro or Arrowhead, which means these 1st party games are 2nd party games.
Remember prior to the May 2023 PS Showcase when Bungie reviewed all in-development live-service games?
According to Sony this is fake news, Bungie doesn't review (so even less kills) live services games.
The Sony Live Services Center of Excellence reviews and supports/assists the live service specific areas (not the whole game) of all the SIE in-development live-services games.
The Sony Live Services Center of Excellence is a team that combines the experts in different live-services specific areas from:
- SIE publishing
- PS Studios live service hub team
- PS Studios tech & services team
- PS Studios gamedev studios
- Bungie
We don't know if Bungie helped with HD2 or not.
We know Sony Live Services Center of Excellence reviews and assists all SIE GaaS since last year, so this includes Destiny 2, GT7, MLB, Helldivers 2, Concord, Marathon, Horizon Online, Fairgame$, etc.
We know part of Sony Live Services Center of Excellence are Bungie experts, but not the whole team. In the specific case of Helldivers 2 we know Sony experts did help Helldivers 2 when they were struggling with the servers, but we don't know if they were from Bungie or not.
We also know that as happens in basically all AAA games, the lead gamedev studio (in this case Arrowhead) only represents around 10% of the people who works in the gaame/appears in the game credits.