>>717298386
>Here's the thing, Mages went to Nintendo for that
And Nintendo allowed them to use it and collaborated with them extensively.
>If an accomplished studio went to Sony for a new Gravity Rush (or outright pays money to license the damn thing entirely), odds are they'd get greenlit no different
What makes you so sure of that? The Ape Escape devs (the actual devs, not some third party) were drumming up excitement for a new game announcement to coincide with the anniversary at the time. But instead the project gets fucking cancelled by Playstation and later all of Japan Studio got the axe.

>>717298263
People will claim it doesn't count though for some reason. Meanwhile Playstation doesn't even do that much for its vast number of properties of old.