I’m still not convinced on “Sony locking down big JP 3rd parties”. What do they lockdown besides Final Fantasy? Even their attempt on Tango was put to rest by MS (no more Tango on PS after Ghostwire). I know it’s “”“rumored”“” they’re getting Dragon’s Dogma 2 And SFVI from Capcom, but I believe those rumors as much as I believed the rumor that DMC5 was gonna be a PS4 exclusive and run on Unreal Engine (and not to mention the actual Capcom data leak that has been correct on everything so far said those 2 titles will be on Xbox). I also don’t believe that Guilty Gear Strive was a paid exclusive (never featured in State of Play) nor do I believe that rumor that Sony is buying Arcsys for that reason.
I don’t particularly count their From or Kojima games as “locked down” either as they work with them to create new IPs.
Nonetheless my expectations for MS and Japan are rock bottom anyway. I’ll figuratively eat my shoe if Xbox even gets a single exclusive JRPG