They need money desperately
They spent billions on live service games that will never even release, literally wont even get to come out and die like concord, just cutting their losses completely
They spent even more billions on acquiring studios for both running these live service games and also to get hundreds of monetization specialists to most effectively nickle and dime the shit out of people on those live service games, that have done absolutely nothing despite being employed for years at this point, except perhaps ruin Gran Turismo, a franchise that should have been evergreen
and they fired all their smaller low budget safe but steady teams because they werent going to make a hundred gorillion dollars with their well liked interesting exclusive games that gave people a reason to actually own a playstation
So they literally just have nothing else, the pipeline is almost empty, there's just a handful of games like Horizon 3 and Heretic Prophet and Ghosts of Yotei, you can count the first party studios on one hand now and more are going to get shut down
Remember how they completely fucked over Bend Studio and lied about Days Gone being a failure because Hulst only wanted to promote Druckmann. They forced them to work on a live service game and then cancelled it. They took a successful studio and directly killed it to suck off Druckmann because his is the ONLY zombie game, he invented zombies
So all they can do is try and scrape money out of what little is left of their hollowed out company