Not Everyone Thinks Sony's Resting on Its Laurels with PS4

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E3 can't come soon enough.

The more smaller scale developers the better. Some of my favorite games on the ps4 include Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, Hotline Miami, and many others. The future holds many great ones too, with No Mans Sky and Everyone's Gone to The Rapture to name a couple. The "indie-station" is certainly becoming the best place to play. I almost feel a little sorry for the folks who choose to ignore indie games. Great games are great games, no matter the size of the team who made it. Let's get rid of that indie word.

Money doesn't earn itself. This should have been obvious.

P.S. I cannot wait for E3

Thanks for the new avatar! But back on topic, Shovel Knight and Velocity 2x put many AAA titles to shame. Tired of the "no AAA games" argument though. Have people been hiding under a rock?

It takes real talent and business-sense to stay on top for this long. The people who refuse to acknowledge that just want an excuse for why their favorite console is doing worse.

That's like me saying to my new boss: "I see you're really running a tight ship here, chief", knowing some of my co-workers are smoking pot in the break room while taking a piss in the ferns.

Indies? No. AAA? Yes.

Don't pretend that courting devs that barely tap into the power on their chosen system(s) is as much as an effort as you think.

where is that awesome PS logo from?

@Boerewors Hahaha.

As far as PS4 only games are concerned, at the moment there isn't anything I am interested in. I really don't get a lot out of the 'indie' games in general - like everything there are always exceptions - but I didn't pay over £300 to play games that look like they belong on a SNES (either visually, game play wise or both) and pay £10-15 on 6-7hrs worth of game time.

I know we have seen a few more releases with the Order and Bloodbourne but both of these don't interest me - the Order for its running time/cost and game play and Bloodbourne because of the type of game it is - I didn't enjoy any of the Souls games either.

Killzone and Infamous are the only exclusives I have and the next one I buy is likely to be Uncharted 4 (as it stands at the moment). There are plenty of 3rd Party titles though to get stuck into though.

The main reason we buy consoles is gaming but there is much more to consoles these days. It seems that Sony are not resting on their laurels here either with recent updates to its UI too.

I like when they release indie games as a retail game (Pure Pool, Pure Chess, Stick It To The Man, Flockers)...kind of gives gamers that don't have the internet a chance to play. The only concern that I have is in the future (about 20 years from now), as with the system always having to unlock the downloaded games by verifying the license, does this mean that 20 years down the road, we won't be able to play all of those downloads??? Anyways, back to the topic, I think Sony is doing a fine job at releasing games, and I think there will be so many coming out next year, that our backlog will be so huge, we won't be able to play them all. I can't wait for the new Hot Shots Golf, but they still didn't release any more details on it...or a date. I'm also waiting on Project Morpheus, depending on price, and to see what games will come out for that...and hoping that it will not be another Wonderbook or Move where they make a few and then nothing. I've been a nintendo fan for life, but Sony brought me to them with the PS2 and my favorite, the PS3, and they're keeping me extremely happy with the PS4.

I hope that some of that hard work Sony is doing goes to beefing up Vita as well. Sure there are a lot of games on vita and more are coming but I really really starve for an exclusive AAA title appearing on Vita again.

Most of these indies we could get on PC/XBO/WiiU, so this person may as well say the same thing about Valve/Steam, Microsoft, or even Nintendo. They all have indie programs with a slew of developers on board.

Indies are great, but that's not what people bought a $400 system for. They dont all have to be exclusives, but at least something that pushes the envelope and shows games are progressing in complex ways. Shadow of Mordor's Enemy system, Witcher3, and No Man's Sky come to mind. I'm a big indie gamer but a plethora of Metroid-lites gets boring real quick, especially when the games they try to copy are somehow still better.

Wow Sammy you really did dig this article up from the dregs of the barrel!

If you look at Sony's exclusives towards Microsoft's you'll soon see who's been resting on there laurels, also Sony gets excellent exclusives. I cannot see Sony getting the biggest fighting game on console, being exclusive not timed exclusive by resting on Its laurels, Street Fighter V.

My team only just got approval from Sony, and the difference between how Sony does things and how Nintendo does things is night and day. In case you were wondering, yes, Sony seems to be doing everything better. Even their dev websites are better designed.

Ps4 being relatively new, is doing pretty good. There's a good few games coming so far this year, the witcher 3, batman, metal gear v and E3 is just around the corner. I'm still playing through dragon age inquisition and next on the list is Dark souls and Bloodborne. I can't afford to buy all these games, as i imagine is the case for a lot of people, and there is more to come. In between there are the indie games that are good to jump into for a quick game fix. We're spoiled really, aren't we? How can anyone complain with the amount of choices we have.

@whywai88 PlayStation All-Stars, seemingly. Most of the roster is on there.

@JLPick yes, it means that exactly. People just recently lost all their OnLive titles, and Sony shut down Playstation Mobile, so you will lose all those titles, and thats just for starters. If you buy digital, you buy temporary games. There will come a point where the PS3 titles are costing Sony too much to provide the backend for downloading, and they will shut it down, same goes for any modern system. And if GameStops choice to start buyojg and selling classic games and consoles ia any indication, people love to play great games, even on older platforms. Fortunately the people buying retail are not affected by this, unfortunately there are no retail games for most indies.

@thedevilsjester That's why I ended up buying Pure Pool, Pure Chess and Stick it To The Man as a retail disc. Same goes with purchasing FLockers from amazon. I kind of wondered about that, and I hate to lose some of the download titles (The Last Tinker, Tetris Ultimate), and I'm glad that some are able to be purchased on the PS3, where they can be played when the system's dead as long as they're downloaded. It's a shame though, you'd think they'd do something so players can enjoy them in the future instead of losing them...especially for the price of some of them. Maybe they'll make another 'Best Of Playstation Network' disc for retail with some of the indies.