I call bull on that list. It completely ignores "history" of Playstation having 90% of the characters from this gen. A lot of the characters make 0 sense and while some, I guess have a relation to Playstation, are multi-plat like Lightning and John Marston. Also, the list not having Crash Bandicoot and Spyro is ridiculous. Among all the third party characters on that list, the 2 not present are the ones that SHOULD be Sony 1st party right now? No way. For God sake, Crash was the damn PS1 mascot with Spyro being very close behind due to Naughty Dog's close relationship with Insomniac.
But Paul Phoenix, Lightning, John Marston, and 3 Killzone characters? No. Just no.
Edit: Here's what I think of the 3rd party character list
MOURED CHARACTER LIST (SOME ARE CONFIRMED/WITH PROOF)
3rd Party (12 Characters)
Chell (Confirmed)
John Marston (Based on a dev image saying “Marston. J” in characters)
James Bond (Confirmed)
Isaac Clarke
Captain Price
The Prince (Katamari) (Not as a playable character but background character)
Altair
Paul Phoenix
Rayman (Maybe)
Lightning
Old Snake (This or regular Snake)
Agent 47 (NO info suggesting this yet)
Seriously....
A Portal character
A CoD character
A Assassin's Creed character
A Dead Space character
A Read Dead Redemption character
A Hitman character
A FFXIII character over one from 7, 8, or 9
Paul Phoenix out of the entire cast of Tekken
James Bond....
Rayman maybe but the games were all over the place and Snake in some form seems the best bet out of the list with Playstation starting the Metal Gear Solid series.
While the 1st party list is much more plausible, some of the characters just seem padded on there just for the sake that whoever wrote it wanted to have as many options open for a character from a game series to be on there. Don't know which Killzone character? List 3 of them, bound to get one right! Another big ehhhh.... is characters like Jak not having Daxter tagging along and Ratchet and Clank being seperate, etc. Other stuff just sounds like obvious guesses based off Smash Bros. like the Wipeout stage.
Overall, list seems like a giant ass joke to me.