Not necessarily. Major triple A studios are seeing sales wane, regularly recycled slop like assassins creed and battlefield they were pumping out doesnt sell well. Video games are selling better than ever, but lots of indie titles or smaller studios taking the wins. Im not talking as much about say rockstar as I am say the ubisofts and EAs of the world.

Anecdote on how thin skinned Sony is:

When Warframe went fully cross platform, it launched great, they had little icons for everyone's systems so you could see that the loading times on the switch were horrible. (Hardware issue, no SSD)

Sony freaked out and their legal demanded that people only see their own platform and everyone else be generic.

Why? Because they were scared someone would be playing on an xbox and beat someone on a PS in pvp.

That depends, some games have lots of fun maps that would be cool to have an arena style game in. The multiplayer doesn’t have to reflect the single player story.

Coop could be fun. Left 4 dead was a huge hit back in the day.

Worse still, weren’t Naughty Dog actually making this for real and then Sony axed it because fuckin Bungee don’t think it was enshitified enough? Letting Bungee anywhere near ND shows just how much Sony has lost the plot.