E3 2014: Sony Owns the Day With Exclusivity

From the article, "Sony finished off the E3 2014 pre-show press conferences in grand style, by focusing on exclusive content. Really, they pretty much kicked Microsoft to the curb this year. While Microsoft was touting all their sequels, remakes, and multi-platform games, Sony was touting new original content, exclusive titles, and even exclusive content and features on all the same multi-platform titles Microsoft was showing us this morning. They also got to talk about hardware that Microsoft doesn’t even have an answer for, like the Vita, Playstation TV, and Project Morpheus."

[GamersHeaven]

Sony always does another E3 another win.

[ZodTheRipper]

3 times during the conference I said to my brother that Sony won this year. Microsoft just showed so much stuff that's available on PS4 as well, presumably in superior quality. Sony on the other hand actually had some exciting announcements exclusive to the PS4 so in the end, PS4 users simply have gotten more out of this E3 than X1 users... in a logical scenario this makes Sony the winner but in the end, we gamers are the real winners.

[AGaryColemanClone]

Sony winning E3 this year shouldn't surprise any rational person. Sony has the largest first party lineup by far making exclusive Playstation games.

Anyone who was expecting Microsoft to 'bring it' was once again off in fantasyland.

Microsoft has the smallest first party developer lineup. Even smaller now that Kinect is been dumped it leaves a good chunk of Microsoft's already tiny first party studio lineup smaller now that internal Kinect are or will be getting canned.

And with the PS4 being the fastest selling console in history and already double the Xbox One's installed base third party exclusives are going to get easier and easier for Sony to secure.

It leaves Microsoft with the same tired old Xbox franchises padded out by multiplatform non-exclusive games and exclusive DLC type junk.

And it is only going to get worse as the PS4's massive installed base lead grows and third party developers will start making PS4 exclusives without Sony having to pay them to. Leaving Microsoft's future E3s even worse than today's.

[mkis007]

No Man's Sky won it alone. Can't come to Xbox now unless MS changes the parity clause.

[yellowgerbil]

WHAT CONFERENCE DID YOU WATCH. Sony failed EPICALLY.
Hell the damn stream didn't even work for half of it. I had to go to Twitch because the PS4 App broke down.
They showed NOTHING worthwhile that we didn't already know about, and they wasted massive amounts of time of stuff like a TV show that HASN'T EVEN STARTED CASTING YET.
This coming from a sony fanboy, this is the worst E3 Press Conference EVER made.
I drew a comic that summed up my experience (kinda nsfw) http://www.zoethevampire.co...

[Thatguy-310]

Yea the whole issue with the app was a mess. Ran to my PC as soon as it started buffering and just streamed it through IGN. Microsoft had literally no new announcements beside a few indies. Sony had more exclusives that they showed.

[corvusmd]

I understand this sentiment, I feel that gamers of all consoles won, and that this is purely an opinion based topic, but still...having watched all conferences in their entirety...I seriously just don't understand how anyone would feel like Sony "won" this E3. They did just about everything that Sony fans were ragging on Xbox for. All Sony had to do was show that there was no game drought on PS4, and they could have dropped the mic and walked off...

Instead they used filler, talked TV, and used Multiplats to fill time (and most of the time I personally feel the DLC favored X1). There were three promising looking exclusives (only one which was somewhat of a surprise)...two of those had CGI trailers with no gameplay and one had short gameplay with QTE. I'm happy I have a PS4, and there is no doubt I would pick one up at some point anyway, but if I didn't already have one, E3 would have told me to wait at least a year till the good games come out.

PS4 has a slight hardware advantage, but that doesn't make up for playing X1 exclusives, all the multiplats with IMO little to no res difference in the final product, a better controller, and better network connection (esp considering that most games are leaning towards seamless MP/CoOp). Again, I'm not upset I have a PS4, but I was embarrassed for Sony most of the show...lesson learned...if you don't have one already...wait a year or so then get one.

[torchic]

"slight hardware advantage"

[DanteVFenris666]

Your network is determined by internet speed, and I find the ps4 controller much better

[brich233]

I saw nothing special from sony this year. All the good games wont come out until next year and sony didnt show anything but Indie multiplatform and Free 2 play games. I dont even remember them showing driveclub.

[DanteVFenris666]

Lbp3? I huge suprise annoucment coming this year ring any bells?

[kenshiro100]

They did not talk about TV THAT much. You definitely didn't see the conference, did you?

[yellowgerbil]

though I tried more than I should of needed to I only saw about 65% of the conference. when you can't even get your stream to work that in itself is a fail worthy of mention, when you follow that up by giving a poor performance, well that sir is an epic fail.
And YES they talked about TV THAT much. TALKING AT ALL about a show that isn't more than a concept at this point is too much.

[kenshiro100]

They must have spent about eight minutes on that. You guys are exaggerating. They had a 2 hour conference. I believe they showed more games than talking about TV. You guys forget they're also a media company, right? I expected them to mention some sort of media in their conferences.

[kingtroy]

I love these types articles lol click bait

[Killzoner99]

It's simple really , Uncharted wins E3 . Any E3.

[Ultraplayerxp]

All this year's e3 showed me was that gamers are an especially self-entitled bunch.

[mrpsychoticstalker]

Sony disappointed even the most hard-core fan. Whoever says otherwise is simply in denial.

They started good, but wasted their time talkinh about what they blasted Microsoft last year for doing. TV. Shows. Hardware. I was falling asleep.
The Jabs at Microsoft are also getting old and stupid. 'yes it's free' oh - some features require a fee to play - that was stupid. Phil Spencer showed respect and admiration to Sony's execs. Why they can't return the favor? That's getting old.

I think Sony feels very comfortable in the position that they are now I'm terms of sales. But Microsoft is clearly gaining momentum. Today's E3 was promised to be just about Games. And it was exactly that. Not only that. But most of the games are gonna be released this year, some others 2015.

Microsoft won this E3.

[torchic]

people need to seperate the production of the conference with the content in the conference.

as a spectacle Microsoft's E3 was miles better than Sony's. it was clean and to the point. the format was great, game after game after game and Phil Spencer is a fabulous speaker. they showed some really incredible 3rd party games as well, and the Chief Collection is the first killer app for X1. Microsoft's problem was content. of the 3 exclusives they announced none had any sort of gameplay representation, no one really knows what they will be like. Platinum Games are hit-and-miss so how their game will turn out, no one knows. Sunset Overdrive & Forza Horizon 2 look good but apart from that not much else.

Sony had more quality content. LPB3, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, The Order : 1886, remakes for Grim Fandango & Rachet & Clank, and a game from the Journey art director! the presentation of the conference was a let down though, didn't hit hard the way Microsoft did. good content, poor execution. Microsoft's conference only seemed better because it was presented better. I wish MS showed more quality first parties (things from devs with good track records)

Ubisoft had the best conference all round by a long, long while. they're going through a golden period right now.

[sic_chops]

Lol @psyco. Either you are interested in ps4 now or you are just a troll. Oh yeah, one bubble. Your opinion doesn't matter since you can't behave yourself.

[GarrusVakarian]

"Sony disappointed even the most hard-core fan. Whoever says otherwise is simply in denial. "

Lmfao...just look at that sentence. An Xbox fanboy, telling PS4 fans how they feel...and if they don't agree with him, then they are in denial. Classic. How exactly are you making a judgement on PS4 fans? I don't understand how that works. They could have shown nothing but stage demos for new IP's for 90 minutes, and you would still say they "lost", lol.

Personally, i really don't know who i would say "won". MS kept the focus on games and never lost momentum...but most of those games were games we already know about and multiplats. They had nowhere near as many "megatons" as people were expecting from them.

Sony on the other hand started off great, slumped in the middle, then picked it back up at the end.

I really don't know. But either way, E3 kinda disappointed me this year. I was expecting more new IP's, and more actual stage demo's. Next year i will just wait for the trailers.

[kenshiro100]

They didn't disappoint me. Pretty sure they didn't disappoint other people either.

You're just trying to stir the pot, as usual.

[Xof]

The absence of Final Fantasy XV, Kingdoms Hearts 3, and The Last Guardian was monumentally disappointed.

The only thing of note Sony had to offer IMHO were a few really short teaser trailers for Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne, both of which failed to reveal anything we didn't already know.

So, yeah, to me Sony's conference was a big letdown. But I've been a gamer so I'm really used to being letdown by E3. I was surprised to see Microsoft unveil some big titles, though--especially some big RPGs. That's one area where they have a leg up on Sony.

That said, it seems like Nintendo is primed to win E3 for me this year, too, by showing off some fun games I'm interested in playing.

[Sly-Lupin]

I agree. Neither Sony nor Microsoft showed off any new heavy hitters to speak of, and everyone seems to expect Nintendo to unveil a new Zelda game tomorrow (or two). They're also primed to announce localization of Dragon Quest VII and Bravely Second. So, yeah--Nintendo is primed to "win."

But that said, Nintendo frequently falls short of even the lowest expectations, so who knows what will happen this week.

Also, to add to your list of epic Sony failures, they also failed to have anything PlayStation Vita. EDIT: or Persona 5.

[saimcheeda]

Microsoft showed more exclusives, Sony's did however show something other than games but for me I would've liked to see more games for the PS4. At least we got to see Uncharted 4!

[Bhai]

"To correct your truth"
What more exclusives did MS showed?
Unknown CG shots of just 3 games? 2 among which are 2D platformers?

[MasterCornholio]

It was a fantastic conference in my opinion.

[Hakoom]

not surprised sony always wins
uncharted was enough for me
that game alone = 10 games ;p

[brich233]

It doesnt come out until next year.

[TheGrimReaper0011]

So who won? Well, I think I won! That WE won!

So many games I wanna play, my wallet is going to bleed money!

No man's sky, Halo, Uncharted 4, Forza, LBP 3, The Division, Assassin's Creed Unity, Battlefield, Batman Arkham Knight, Rainbow Six Siege, New Tomb Raider Game, Bloodborne, Far Cry 4, the witcher 3, Scale Bound, Destiny, Drive Club, ...

I don't know about you guys, but I'm happy to be a gamer!