@leebmx: The more then 30 exclusives was said on the PS Blog here. Second paragraph, 3rd sentence. I guess you can call it "fanboyism" but I'm not at the level where I'll flame other companies or downright say they make terrible games; unless I'm just joking around with friends who like *insert company here*. What I said is dumb but it just comes down to developers proving themselves to me. All of Sony's developers beside Evolution Studios (Devs of Motorstorm, Driveclub) have proven to me that whatever they make, I'll eat it up. A LOT of people feel the exact opposite of me. A ton of people, on here for example, don't enjoy most PS3 titles. Just look at any PS3/Vita games forum, they're pretty much dead. Very few people here are usually excited about a new inFamous, Sly, or Ratchet & Clank but when it came to something like Halo 4 or Gears 3, people were excited. I'm not going to say those games are bad because they aren't, a lot of people love them and they get great reviews all around. But not everyone enjoys those, including me. I know they're great games and I would never tell anyone they're bad because they aren't. Instead, I'd say "Hey, Halo is a great game & if you like the look of it, go for it. I myself don't enjoy it but millions of other people do so it's a great game." But back to my point, I'm positive those Xbone titles will be great but I just can't justify buying one when I've never tried a game from Remedy and I don't find Halo appealing. If I had a friend with a 360, I would totally try out Alan Wake, Fable or whatever other first party title MS has that isn't Halo, Gears, or Forza. I mean, I've ALWAYS wanted to try Alan Wake but buying a 360 for two or three games when I'm pretty much a poor college student doesn't make sense. I want to also state that I want to play Banjo: Nuts & Bolts but that's not going to happen since MS owns Rare, which apparenty is making another Kinect game for Xbone, which is really sad. They're making Kinect Sports Rivals.
As a person that watches all his television shows on Hulu & Netflix because I never remember that they're on, the Xbone features are pretty much useless to me. The only Xbone feature that I like is the voice commands and the things the PS4 already does. Why would I need a DVR when I have Hulu & Netflix? I'm not into sports so why would I care about fantasy football leagues or NFL partnerships? I live in New York so all that stuff would work for me but I just don't care for it. At the moment, no one can deny the fact that MS killed it with games but that isn't going to overshadow the fact that they're being very anti-consumer. People think that America has great internet but that's not true. A lot of American states have shit internet. My friend who lives in Florida has shoddy internet. It literally could be super fast one day and shut down the next. Unless you're in a city, your internet probably sucks ass so MS going the way they're going is a pretty bad thing. On top of that, it's pretty much an American based console so I wouldn't understand why anyone in not America would want one unless they really like the exclusives.
I understand my comments sound pretty dumb but I'm sure if what I said was said in a face to face manner, I'd sound less "fanboyish" but this is the internet so it's hard to distinguish an excited fan with a fanboy. It's impossible to deny that MS showed up with a ton of good looking exclusives and that Sony showed up with the same from their reveal but there's always a catch. MS pretty much showed off all their cards and Sony just gave a tease. The only PS4 exclusives that are sequels are Infamous & Killzone. Driveclub, Knack & The Order: 1886 are new IP's. The Order: 1886 is a new IP that was revealed at E3 so that wasn't at the PS4 reveal. I think Sony didn't show their entire lineup because they want people to focus on these 5 exclusive games. Announcing more IP's would've taken the spotlight off these launch games and it's better to have these 5 games be the ones hyped up in the news instead of being overshadowed by a new Santa Monica or Naughty Dog project that won't be out for quite some time. So it's very smart of Sony to show off a couple games only and have people talking about those instead of having some of those titles get buried over others. I believe Sony will show 1 or 2 more in the next couple months or probably right after the PS4 release.
I wouldn't want Microsoft or Sony to fail either. Competition is always healthy. What I do think is MS needs to either soften up on their restrictions or fumble like Sony did during their first few years of the PS3 so they can show up next-next-gen with the mindset Sony has now. I too am excited to talk about the PS4 when I get myself one (Hopefully at launch!) because I LOVE games and only 2 friends that play games isn't enough peopleto share my excitement with. I think that the new PS4 games coming out right now look miles better then how they looked on PS3. The new Killzone is obviously a step up from Killzone 3 which was already a gorgeous game. Infamous: Second Son is another obvious step up, it looks 50x better then Infamous 2 and I'm not saying I2 looked bad, it looked great. But what we're seeing now is considerably better then the PS3 and I can't wait to see how games shape up to be when all devs have a better handle of the consoles. We sure are in for a treat.
Before I end this post, I want to say that if I was super rich, I'd buy an Xbone day one no matter how ridiculous MS stance is, but only because the games and my stinky richness. But as I'm pretty poor, I'll vote with my wallet. I'm not literally poor by the way, my (mums) apartment is pretty nice. When cops, friends, etc. come to my house, they compliment the hell out of the apartment or ask if I'm rich. Don't ask why cops come over. Also, I'd like to point that my love for indies is pretty big and those 9 indies shown at E3 plus all the indies announced for PS4 on the PS Blog/Polygon and all the free 2 play titles coming out to PS4, it's obviously a no-brainer over Xbone to me. I can finally try out Warframe, Blacklight Retribution, Planetside 2, Don't Starve, Octodad, etc. which is YES! ALL MY YES!
But yeah. VIDEO GAMES MAN!
Edit: Jack says "Our Worldwide Studios team has more than 30 PS4 exclusive titles in development" which sounds kind of weird now that I think about it. The word "team" confuses the whole thing for me. It could mean all their 1st & 2nd party devs are working on exclusives or it could mean that plus they have contracts with 3rd parties for some exclusives which I hope isn't the case. I'd like those to be all titles made from 1st & 2nd party devs so take that how you will.
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