Which, IMO, was a mistake. The Last of Us should have been the cut off point. Anything with potential to be released after that should have been moved to PS4.
They may not been the greatest games, but Ryse, Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3 all could have been 360 games. The Puppeteer, Beyond Two Souls and Gran Turismo 6 should have been developed for the PS4. GT6, by itself, could have filled the hole in Sony's 2015 fall lineup.
Yeah, and it's a really tricky thing too. On the one hand, Sony gained back a lot of good favor by releasing those games on PS3 when PS4 and XBO were still seemingly far away.
OTOH, seeing that those games (minus GT6) were crucial to Sony getting back good favor that's obviously been beneficial to PS4's sales, had they not come, it's debatable if the PS4 would be selling as well as it has. Or maybe it's better to say, it'd be selling well, but XBO would be selling a lot closer to it and definitely have the lead in NA and UK at this point.
At the very least, GT6 should have either been a PS4 exclusive for the launch window or cross-gen for both PS3 and PS4.
Agreed. That was some terrible logic by Sony not to release GT6 on PS4, look at how the sales suffered because it came out for the old console. I'm shocked there isn't a remaster announced yet because a lot of people skipped it because they just bought a PS4.
I know that 3rd party games are the big sellers and Sony seems to have the marketing to all the biggest games this year. Also MS saying they are focusing on 1st party at E3, makes me really worried that at Sony it's just going to be one 3rd party developer after another with maybe only one 1st party triple A title for the fall (TLG?). The problem with a lack of 1st party software is that people have less motivation to buy into their console, why not buy an Xbox because you get all the same games and these exclusives? Why not buy a PC because games are cheaper and they look better? It just makes Sony seem vulnerable in a sense.
This is
exactly the point more people need to get into their heads. I mean, I'll likely still pick up a PS4 for some stuff like RIME (assuming that isn't coming to PC as well), Tomorrow Children, and SFV (although mods and cross-platform multiplayer more or less seem to be pushing me to the PC version there), but if you're asking me to justify a $400 investment, I need more than three games.
And no, I don't count multiplatforms as being justifiers, since I can play those on XBO and PC. The only reason multiplatform games MIGHT have some sway is depending on if it's a game I would be competitive in, and therefore looking for the multiplayer network where the most (hopefully good) players are at. There aren't really any multiplatform multiplayer games out ATM that interest me though, not even MKX.
