Why Sony is Still One Step Ahead of the Competition

Sony did not have new hardware to announce this year, and showcased fewer titles overall. However, what they lacked in quantity they more than made up for in quality, and perhaps Sony played it smart this year, which could lead to them easily taking 2017 and even 2018.

[PhoenixUp]

Because SIE is the only hardware manufacturer than can provide a large amount of both exclusive and multiplatform titles

Nuff said

[ApocalypseShadow]

Because Sony is acting like a real console company who spends money creating studios to create award winning games yearly. Where they can announce new games at any time at any conference if they wanted to. But hold back because announcing too many would hurt the games already announced.

And not spending time promoting console industry trickery like this
http://www.avsforum.com/pho...
or this
http://www.nowgamer.com/wp-...
or fake videos
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Or saying "you can't just flip a switch."

Or Hololens producing actual "holograms."

or knowing about scalebound being canceled before the Christmas season but held off telling anyone until January because of possible sales declines when gamers found out Xbox had one less exclusive after already canceling Fable Legends.

Or "DX12" or the "cloud" or "true 4K" or "high fidelity VR"

Or console exclusive,world premiere exclusive and console launch exclusive at E3. Nuff said on this one.

Sony is doing what a console company should be doing all the time.Making games. Not coming up with new ways to trick.It's not Halloween. It's not a treat.

[UltraNova]

Plus they take upon the risk inherent in trying to cater to all kinds of gamers no matter how niche a game is.

[nitrogav]

Well said ! .

[Elda]

You read for the filth! & it was all on point!!

[MegamanXXX]

What about Nintendo? You think they'll get back on track???

[fiveby9]

It seems so simple but MS just doesn't get it. MS seems to be an expert at over promising and under delivering.

[NapalmSanctuary]

@UltraNova
"Plus they take upon the risk inherent in trying to cater to all kinds of gamers no matter how niche a game is. "

Try telling me that after they announce a new Twisted Metal game. I might be more inclined to believe you.

[SethBrundlefly]

Hear, hear.

[freshslicepizza]

There was a time when Sony cared more about its customers and gave them BC included in the hardware and not offering an alternative pay as you go plan. They also did this while creating new games, imagine that!

But sadly now it's become more about making as much money as possible all while trying to secure IP rights and get as many exclusive deals as they can. Or raking in online subscriptions and not investing in their infrastructure and investing less in dedicated servers. They also feel the need to protect its users by blocking crossplay with other consoles but are ok with the PC, the most open and unsecure platform. They are also doing another Nintendo and protecting its users by blocking EA Access and thinking they know whats best for its users.

But I guess it's impossible to be a leader without being a bully in the process. It's shame too because we used to go after Nintendo for being like that before Sony came into the scene and people used to go after Microsoft for tactics like this too. Maybe it's just denial now thinking Sony could ever be like they used to be.

[Elda]

Yessss!

[Ceaser9857361]

Becoz Games, Fantastic system seller exclusives, creative freedom, new exclusive ip.. awesome 1st party devs and amazing third party partnership...

[trooper_]

Games definitely talk.

[2pacalypsenow]

Because they know what gamers want.

[Vbma]

Like Bc And Crossplay, AAA games on Plus, better PSN....
SMH

[2pacalypsenow]

If gamers really wanted BC and Crossplay, they wouldn't be buying the Ps4 and sales would be struggling. And the Ps plus games are fine same with PSN, I have yet to have any issues on either Xbox live or PSN. The Switch doesn't have BC right now and will have paid BC in the future, and no one bats an eye.

[OB1Biker]

I think he means AAA 'true' exclusives.
From your list Crossplay is the only one I find relevant (to me) Btw indie game rocket League is one of the couple games related to the crossplay you mention (my kid can cope with no minecraft crossplay) and it was on PS plus at launch (actually a launch exclusive :) See it can be nice sometimes to have brand new indies instead of years old AAA.
I think gamers should ask crossplay for all major games BF etc. Now that would be great.

[BIGBOSS08]

No, like actual new f*cking games! I don't remember anyone asking for BC until microsoft fanboys started having an orgasm over it like it was a feature never done before and who wants cross play with xbox? Xbox live is full of screaming 12 years old brats. Sony just need to keep doing what they're doing, and thats releasing a variety of different games. Games sell system's. Ps4 is selling faster than it ever has before because of that crazy games lineup it had the first half of the year.

[Omnislashver36]

MS does BC because it's all they can do is reverse engineer old games to run on Xbox.

PS4 could have done the same but thought making new games was smarter.

Guess who's plan paid off? It's not even a competition.

[Aenea]

The only people really wanting BC and cross-play on the PS4 are Xbox fans...

PSN is also not as bad as Xbox fans make it out to be.

And AAA game on PS+? Really, that's a fantasy by people who have it for their COD fix and don't have money to buy any other games...

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

"Why Sony is Still One Step Ahead of the Competition"

I heard Jim Ryan was the mastermind behind the scenes.

[affrogamer]

GAMES.

[SegaGamer]

Yep, it's so simple that it doesn't need an article explaining it every week.

You don't need to go deep into these things, us gamers are very simple with what we want, we just want games. Sony has been the system for everybody since the PS1 days. They don't target one type of gamer, they target all of them.

[MagicBeanz]

They may have showcased fewer titles overall but that was ok because with all the multii-plats Microsoft showed they let Microsoft do it for them, which meant more time for Sony's stellar exclusives. Sony may only be one step ahead but its one massive step.

[ElementX]

Well it's not the exclusives, however I bought a ps4 for the exclusives because I'm a PC gamer. People are always quick to list exclusives, however sales numbers show that a majority of sales are for multiplats. Yes exclusives sell a few million, however in the big picture they are a small portion of overall game sales. I know I will get disagrees however Microsoft had a horrible image at the beginning of the generation. People flocked to the PS4, and when people buy a console, they go where their friends are.

[CP_Company]

it is not healthy to compare exclusives to multiplat games. advertisement is in another level. if games like Uncharted went to all platforms,it would had sold not 9M,but maybe 20M at least, because all platforms would make advertisements and more wider group of people see it.

[ElementX]

Well you are assuming that gamers learn about games from ads. You also forget that Sony and Microsoft have advertising agreements for multiplats. Many people don't watch TV and if they do it's Netflix or some subscription service without advertising. If most of the 70m PS4 owners bought the system to play the exclusives then the sales would be higher. When 3.5m people out of 70m buy a game like Horizon, you can see from the numbers that it's a small portion of the total number of console owners. So what exclusives are people buying if they bought a console for exclusives? For the record, I just started Horizon yesterday, it's amazing. It's great that it's selling well but most people aren't buying it

[LexHazard79]

I thought your comment was right on point. Playstation Nation doesnt agree tho.

[KickSpinFilter]

Look at it this way:

Exclusive Games: A1, B1, C1, D2, E2, F1
Multi-plat 3rd Party AAA's XX,
Player 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
So All players picked up game XX
While Player 1,2,5 Picked up Game A1, B1
Player 6 picked up F1
Player 3 picked up only C1
Player 4 picked up D2, E2

Exclusive Games Key: Letter Number = Game, and Console 1 or Console 2

So while every player bought 3rd party game XX, most were steered in the Console's 1 direction due to the choices in exclusives. Sure they did not sell as much combined as the XX game, but there was choice, a diversity of exclusives on console 1 that led more to buy that system.

[FGHFGHFGH]

"Well it's not the exclusives, however I bought a ps4 for the exclusives"

Huh?