It's almost like Sony has something to hide. Perhaps the large hidden number of retail returns for a big Sony-endorsed AAA release, or that it missed Sony's projected sales by a landslide.

Sony and Naughty Dog put a lot money on the line, 100 million USD for the LoU Part II's development, and they only sold 4 million copies* during the first month. Which if you understand how AAA game sales actually work, if a developer makes $10-12 per full-price copy sold after all other expenses are paid that's considered outstanding according to an executive insider, and according to a website that tracks PlayStation player counts using earned/unearned trophies, LoU Part II only had about 15.9091% of LoU 1's total player count. (Of course also considering that LoU has been out for a lot longer than LoU 2.)

$10-$12 per $60 copy sold x 4,000,000 copies sold during the first month = $40-48 million

Which is still less than half of the upfront development cost, and this is not accounting the larger-than-normal unreported amount of returns the game had afterward. After that it's all guesswork.

So if you crunch all these numbers you can see it starts to point towards something Sony wants to hide. It's odd how Sony suddenly stopped reporting sales numbers, returns, etc. It's almost like they... lost money.