Sony's Press Conference Did Not Impress Me

Chris writes... "Flat out, I was not impressed. Before you get that lynching rope ready, let me explain. I was not impressed by the games. Pulling purely numbers, Sony showed off one exclusive new game that we had never seen or had confirmed, The Order: 1886. On the flip side, Microsoft showed off eight brand new exclusive games; Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Sunset Overdrive, D4, Project Spark, Crimson Dragon, Below, Titanfall, and whatever Black Tusk is working on. You do not have to count that last one if you do not want to, but it only brings the total new games down by one."

[dedicatedtogamers]

In other news, my house was demolished by a massive hurricane in Florida and I was like "Have you SEEN the Eye of Jupiter? I'm simply not impressed, hurricane. Step your game up."

[Lovable]

dafuq? lol

Though MS really showed tons of exclusive considering they didn't show nothing on their first conference.

What's the use of all those games if there are insane restrictions on the console?

[SeanScythe]

Sony showed exclusives just like MS and they showed Multiplats just like MS. Sony announced the PS4 in Feb and with it they showed games for it. So lets see, PS3/PS4 Exclusives
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Infamous: 2nd Son
Drive Club
GT6
Knack
Oddworld: New n' Tasty
Outlast
Transistor
Warframe
War Thunder
Blacklight: Retribution
Daylight
DC Universe Online
Don't Starve
Mercenary Kings
PlanetSide 2
Deep Down
Octodad: Deadliest Catch
The Order: 1886
GT6
The Last of Us
Beyond Two Souls

[DiRtY]

Did you just combined 2 plattforms?

Did you just included PC games as well? (Something I was killed for on N4G back in the days with Left 4 Dead or Splinter Cell Conviction)

Did you just mentioned GT6 twice?

[shoddy]

The price and the no restrictions blow me out of my seat and on to the floor laughing.

[Drekken]

DiRtY - Why not combine two platforms? Just because one of the companies have completely forgot about their 80 million fans that own their current generation console doesn't mean the other company who is arguably releasing the best games yet on their console doesn't get to bask in the glory.

Lets not try to say Sony doesn't bring the exclusives and the most games. I didn't see anything special coming for the 360. Abandonment. The 360 was said to have a 10 year lifespan and I just don't see the microsoft support. **AND THAT IS WHY the PS3 is killing the competition in sales.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

If you move aside the freedom console.

Sony's presser was underwhelming.

Edit: @Gamer Yeah if you continue to bring that up. How bout we talk about the rest of the conference.

Like I said beside the freedom console Sony's presser was relatively boring unless anyone can say otherwise?

EDIT 2: @Gamer well your inability to stay on topic that's related to the article proves Sony's presser was underwhelming. You simply can't stay on topic so that makes my point right, it was underwhelming in regards of reveals.

@Kneon Oh you mean like how DCUO, Warframe, Planetside 2, Warthinder, Blacklight retribution. Is all available on PC? Right they're exclusive alright.

Its ok to list games that are available on PC and pass them off as Sony exclusive but its not ok for MS games.

[SexyGamerDude]

If you move aside the games.

Microsoft's console is the most anti consumer product you will ever see.

[Lovable]

Not by a long shot. Well actually it depends lol.

FF 15 and KH3 announcement along is more than enough to destroy MS conference. Then you found out it's multiplat lol then yeah

[MasterCornholio]

I wouldn't be worried about games with the PS4 though because Sony has an extremely good track record of providing their consumers with many titles to play.

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[SexyGamerDude]

And like I said Microsoft's product is anti consumer unless anyone can prove otherwise.

[kneon]

Yup, the PS4 game line up is lame, I only found 11 games to pre-order yesterday :)

/s of course

[Snickelsox]

I am glad we agree. It's not that the press conference was bad, but they have had much, much better. If they had not revealed the price and DRM plans this would have gone down as one of the most boring Sony conferences ever.

[nthstew]

the conference did encourage me to buy PS4 at day 1..

[stuntman_mike]

I was gonna buy a PS4 way before E3 and all this bullshit happened. the price and the games just sweetened the deal.

[Cuzzo63]

Okay, okay.... yea M$ showed some good games. More original games for once I might add... But what does all this prove? Not much considering all the restrictions. By the way, does this mean Sony wont have any exclusives or original titles? NO! There is a bigger issue at hand and its not on Sony's court. I will say Titanfall looks badass, props to them for the timed exclusive. But all fanboyish ish to the side, considering all the 1st party studios Sony has and the jump they put on Micro do we really just count sony out just cuz Micro came with their big guns.... They had to. They had no choice. DO YOU THINK THATS ALL SONY HAD IN THE TANK. LOL... Trust they only gave us wat they wanted as of now. Just look at the past few months, they had us all fooled with the Drm, the ram, and the initial reveal. I coulda sworn I saw dozens of Sony wont announce first articles. HELL Sony went as far as to keep quiet on it and let the media speculate for them. Look how that turned out. Im sure all of their studios got good shit cooking. Just waiting on the chief to give the word... Slaughter!!!

Edit
And might I add. Sony said this will be their biggest launch line up in like forever. Excluding multiplats they know wat their doin...

[Chuk5]

We know there will be games. Anyone with eyes and have paid attention for the last decade knows sony has tons of studios to make exclusives. And we know multiplatforms are a given. MS had to show more games because they have really fallen off in terms of providing exclusive experiences you can only get on a microsoft platform.

What sony sold was ideology. Their philosophies and open defiance of anti-consumerist policies, are bigger than any one game. Sure Titanfall blew me away, but sony's respect for as a consumer, renewed my faith in gaming at a time when I thought it was on the brink of tipping completely.

[kneon]

Sony showed plenty of games as well, in fact they showed more than Microsoft. The only problem was that most of the big exclusives were already announced earlier so there were few surprises.

[Pintheshadows]

I wish they'd shown a race fromDriveclub, that infamous, Infamous Second Son gameplay and the new KZSF footage showing how open it is. Then they would have outright flattened E3.

[Majin-vegeta]

Whats the point of these games?If it comes at the cost of your privacy,ability to trade games with friends(MORE THAN ONCE) etc...

@Mike apparently not -sigh-

[Mikelarry]

it amazes me how quick people are willing to give up thier consumer rights just to play some games they have only seen demoed. have none of them learnt anything from the aliens fiasco

[stuntman_mike]

I know absolutely crazy it's not about brand loyalty it's about your rights as a consumer and Microsoft try to quash them. also most of XB1's games were third party exclusives. they will probably come to the other consoles down the line anyway.

[komp]

hiphopgamer is that you?

[ger2396]

As far as games go Microsoft did show quite a few new ips. I expect Sony to unveil more before launch.

[stuntman_mike]

we still haven't seen over half of what their internal studios are doing. so there are loads more stuff to come.

[Pintheshadows]

Well, they stated every dev they have is working on PS4 titles and we have seen 5 I think so that is (if i'm right) 35 to go.

[True_Samurai]

Here they come..... Stampede!!!

[Mikelarry]

that was actually funny

[ziggurcat]

honestly, their conference was on the dry side, but they certainly made up for it with the two giant bombshells they dropped onto MS's lap.

[Dante_007]

yeah like sony was going show all their exclusives games the year while were only in 6 month and the ps4 coming at the end of the year surely you'll hear about more games they have planned around gamescom and the Tokyo game show

[from the beach]

Wait for Gamescom!

[lucaskeller1]

To be honest, if you told me a year ago that the biggest E3 announcement in a years time for sonys new playstation was that it could play used games i'd laugh. I wouldn't see how thats an announcement when its what we've had since forever, but approaching E3 I was getting nervous that Sony would follow ms..

SORRY I DOUBTED YOU SONY, I LOVE YOU

[NateCole]

I am not impressed that you are not impressed.

[LordMaim]

Clickbait.

[Jeff257]

Why are we still hearing the same tired it has no games BS about Sony? They have proven over and over that they can and will put high quality games for all of their systems.

[tbon3man]

I was just waiting for that "WOW" moment blockbuster game and I feel it never came, but I know Sony has some good stuff in the works. So keep the faith.

[Mikeyy]

That's because Sony already showed a boat load of games in February.

Microsoft showed TV at there reveal.

Such dumbasses nowadays...

[DEEBO]

the show could have been 15minutes long and it still would have been better MS.399,better hardware,plus freedom to do what the fuck i want with my games&console.no 24 hour check in. jack throws the mic. i'm out!

[IG-88]

Sony may have not shown more games in their Press conference but as of right now they have more games coming out for the PS4 then the XBox One.

PlayStation 4: 71 Games
Xbox One: 58 Games
Only on Xbox One (14 games)
Xbox One Next-Gen Console Exclusive (8 games)
Only On PS4 (10 games)
PS4 Next-Gen Console Exclusive (25 games)
Multi-Platform (36 games)
Full list here:
http://www.gametrailers.com...

[Kiddcarter]

Articles like this make me laugh, If Sony has been good at anything THE WHOLE TIME THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY its been EXCLUSIVES, so because Microsoft went out and bought some games from third parties, all of a sudden SONY now has no games?

[Chapter11]

Look, I can claim the opposite of what's popular for attention too.

[noctis_lumia]

say that again once santa monica,naughty dogs,quantic dreams,sony japan studio,media molicule will step in

and btw titanfall is not exclusive only time exclu..we r taking about EA here

[swerve121]

Everyone here know Sony conference sucked. They only good things there was 3rd party stuff. I wanted to see alot of the games that where first party but they where trailers WTF? What made fan boys happy was no drm and internet check in. I already have both systems on pre order XB1 paid off and PS4 half way there.

[Phillyhorse]

What I see a lot of on all these comments is..."yea MS had better games at their conference but im going with Sony b\c their not anti-consumer." what the hell kind of sense does that make?? your going buy a system that is notorious for screwing you in the end. sony came out with the ps3 @ $600. then pulled backwards compatibility. then removed ports and functionality. then started to charge for a half ass online component THAT GOT HACKED FOR 2 MONTHS. then offer you unfulfilled dreams of cross-buy options that only worked for 2-3 games.

come on people, stop drinking the Sony juice... their motto is Make.Believe.....need I say more.

[Pintheshadows]

'charge for a half ass online component'

Yeah, because getting 2 free games a month, plus indies is totally half assed. /s

Give it rest.

[SpinalRemains]

I didn't read the diarrhea.

Did he really type 'half ass' rather than 'half assed'?

He loses credibility there for being a moron, let alone the verbal feces that the thought tried to express.

[Snickelsox]

Hi,

I wrote this article and not once did I talk about 'charge for half ass online component'. Where this quote came from I have no idea.
In fact, I did not talk about online play at all.

[SpinalRemains]

Appy-Polly-Logies, Snickelsox.

I should not have repeated anything without having read it. Sorry.

[Snickelsox]

Hey man, no big deal. I don't mind if people disagree with me, but I sure do not want to be misquoted. Or fake-uoted as it were.

[thebudgetgamer]

Well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

[izumo_lee]

Heading into E3 everyone was wondering what Sony was going to do with the DRM policy. A lot of people (game journalist) assumed that since Microsoft were doing it that Sony had no choice to follow suite. We got countless articles discussing if/if not Sony were gonna do the same.

The games were a secondary note compared to the DRM talk. Judging by the reaction in the conference that when Sony blantanly took jabs at Microsoft in their DRM stand that was what people were waiting to hear. Everything else from the games & price were bonuses. Even if Sony announced the same price point as Microsoft the reaction would still be the same cause the DRM policy was more important. When Sony said $399 it was just the icing on the cake.

[SpinalRemains]

Ellie Araway wasn't very impressed by the constellation she transported to either.

It happens, man.

[o-Sunny-o]

I thought MS had 15 exclusives while PS4 had 40...maybe I read wrong somewhere.

[Commodore]

SONY doesn't use E3 to that announce many new games any more....They do much of their announcing during different times of the year instead of having the games being drown out by other games being announced and it's absolutely a smart strategy. They sprinkle it out. I'm sure Gamescom and TGS we will see many new games being revealed.

They just used this year's E3 to crap on the competition. This E3 was about showcasing what they already announced, the PS4, and a few other multi plat games.