It is an extremely common view in a specific part of the videogame industry, not only Sony but particularly present on the PS platform, that the only thing that matter is the big AAA, cinematic action stuff.
It's very much reinforced by forums since anyone left on those like we are would be around 30+, so right at the correct age to have grown with Playstation, but it also reflects on game reviews or game awards shows, it's all the same generation, so a lot are genuinely convinced that it is what is important and somehow leads the industry.
Of course we know it's false, you don't even need to bring Steam in the equation (although we would hear the same people cum their brains outs if their plastic box had a +40% growth YoY in Japan, and not a decade long death spiral), there's plenty of games that single handedly have more players and make more money than the entire console industry. And that's without even talking about the mobile world!
But as some people are quick to damage control, those are not "real games", because the propaganda told them that what matters is third rate zombie schlock, or spess muhrine corridors with walking sections, and open worlds with RPG sprinkles.
So it quickly becomes an echo chamber that completely ignore the reality of the industry and it reflects all over the place, from the TGA to games with zero reviews but millions of sales.
And of course, in the development of the games themselves - and that's the obvious reason why so many are just running to their doom (if they haven't already), because their target demographic is this specific subset of 30, 40 years old with an ever increasing budget as they've trained them to only consider those games as the worthy ones, while the market is ever shrinking, and not even tryin to expand: it's not only that they ignore the people that are not part of it, but that they've completely forgotten about renewing their customer base, the youth doesn't give a shit about all of it and obviously has no ties to the history of PS, Xbox and all.
In the case of Sony, it's reinforced by Xbox effectively throwing the towel, I would not give the brand more than three years before it's gone, and it's not new: Halo died years ago and didn't wait for Infinite to fall apart, and the franchise was already irrelevant in the entire world bar three NA countries. Very symptomatic of that blinded part of the community.
Now they feel Playstation has won, despite being trounced by Nintendo, because again, not real games so it's just denial. Of course Sony is blaring the alarms that the exact thing is happening to them and is running on PC for a reason, but it still won't fix the original problem that their target demographic is ever aging, ever leaving it behind. And for that, they'll need more than ports of Ghost of Tsushima... but I don't know what the future is made of.
