Sony Promises More First-Party PlayStation Exclusives

Great news, especially hearing they want to go back to some older franchises, there's still so much potential with I.P's like Ape Escape and Syphon Filter, i'd love for them to return, i really hope the Medievil remake is shown at E3, can't wait for that

Before anybody gets too excited about possible E3 announcements it sounds like he is talking about PS, not PS4 in particular, so new PS5 IP, not PS4. Though he could be talking about new PSVR games as well. I wonder if they could make dual PSVR games for the current headset and a next gen headset. I'm assuming PSVR 2 launches a year after PS5 w/ better resolution, less wires and no external box. Unless Sony just drops it like all of their other side projects and moves onto something else.

@rjejr I've seen some rumors that the PS5 will have PSVR-required processing hardware built into the console, so I doubt they'll be giving up on VR just yet. Remember, PSVR is currently the sales leader in the VR space.

You know, with Everybody's Golf Level-5 collab featuring costumes from Dark Cloud, it would be cool if they could at least revive their old IPs like Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, Twisted Metal, Legend of Dragoon or others. Heck, give me Freedom Wars 2 and Soul Sacrifice 2 and I'll be happy. Don't care if these comes exclusively to PS4 (and even PC).

If there's one thing I want to expect from Sony is to at least seeing them remember their old franchises.

I do love how Sony do full expansions for their exclusives, rather then dribbly little DLC monetisation that other companies favor.
Reminds me of the old days...sigh.

I know I'm dreaming but I would love a sequel to PS All Stars , yes I know it was Smash Bros clone esque but still so fun. I play every night on my Vita before bed . Would also love a new Sly Cooper & Jak and Daxter .

As long as they keep up with the good work in terms of first party exclusives, then I'll be happy.

I think their strategy is working. Next generation, whenever it launches or whatever the competitors do, if Sony continue their investment on so many varied games and IP's as they have this gen, I'll feel like I'm missing out and stick with them. Plus, I suspect the expansion purchases for TLOU, Bloodborne, Horizon etc. have been very high because the base packages are so good.

I never buy consoles at launch, but a hypothetical HZD2 for PS5's launch would be an extraordinarily tempting offer.

Also, more PS exclusives sounds great! Their track record this generation has been super impressive.

As opposed to new first-party Xbox exclusives?

Like this headline and statement right here is literally summed up with this -

@Turismo4GT "so I doubt they'll be giving up on VR just yet"

Well I'd like to think they are going to continue it, but they won't continue making something if nobody buys it, and the fact that it dropped from $400 to $200 in 18 months makes me think it's not selling gangbusters. And Sony has a history of dropping things.
$500 24" 3D display
Wonderbook
Move and camera (I dare you to find a Nav controller)
PSPgo
PSTV

So it wouldn't really surprise me if they just decided to drop it and go all in on PS5. I hope they continue it, seems like it still has a lot of potential, but Sony isn't a charity or a start-up, they're a big business looking to make big money. If PSVR doesn't do that it's done.

Have there been any primarily PSVR games w/ loot crates, DLC, micros-transactions or season passes? That's where the money is going forward, games-as-service, and I can't think of one of those on PSVR. Gotta keep the shareholders happy.

I'm still kinda split on a new Uncharted game. I don't want the series to go longer than it should, but Lost Legacy proved there's still potential in the series.

Either way, I'm looking forward to whatever they're cooking up. PlayStation wouldn't be as good as it is if the exclusive lineup was as diverse as it is.

@JoeBlogs I just woke up...

@get2sammyb "as well as PS4."

Are you still expecting big new AAA game announcements from Sony for PS4? I'm still surprised Ghosts is a PS4 exclusive, but it may be farther along than I thought as it's 1 of the 4 for E3. If it wasn't quite done yet they probably would have had Dreams instead. And Death Stranding just can't be too soon.

I do think we'll get a big GoW DLC announcement at E3. And it would be really nice if they released the 2nd half of the game on PS4 rather than PS5 b/c that ending left a horrible taste in my mouth and I'd like to play it in a year or 2 on the console I already own, not 4 or 5 on anew expensive console I'll need to buy, but w/ their big 4, plus Dreams, plus Days Gone, plus MLB The Show 19, lined up on PS4 for the rest of 2018 and 2019, I feel like anything new and worthy of being called AAA will be on PS5. PS4 also has all of those 3rd party FPS, sports games and Legos to keep it going for another year as well. So maybe some PSVR games to keep that alive until 2 on PS5, but nothing like Ghosts.

But if they want to announce GoW2 for 2019 on PS4, I'm in. Just skip the DLC entirely.

promise to make more first party games for ps4 : awesome news but i want play more new games of Uncharted, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper .. can't wait to see what does Ghost of Tsushima look like in gameplay video. new game from Fromsoftware doesn't bother me but hope it gonna be different from Bloodborne and Dark Soul in same action style

The only uncharted game I'd like to see, is one in the same vein as a way out. Co-op split screen with two different perspectives.

@adf86 There is pleasing me. I was very pleased until I went to the last "world" and nothing happened. Not a thing, just 1 long cut scene. Then I watched some credits and I was like "That's it?". Then my wife suggested I go back home, and I did. Then I watched credits again, for 40 long minutes, I timed it. Then it let me go again. Which was nice.

Then I realized that last final boss battle, with some guy who I never felt was more than a mini-boss, was the final boss, and I was so disappointed. The big dragon battle was more fun than that fight. Sure, it had a really cool plot device in it which I appreciated, but I never even considered for 1 second that it was the final boss battle. I still can't believe it was. So unsatisfying. Then to finally unlock the last world and not even have some baddies show up for me to fight through. In a GoW game? Whose idea was that? At least let me battle stuff for a couple of hours and throw in a couple of puzzles. It was all so anticlimactic. And there were at least 2 worlds I think we never unlocked? 1 for certain. Can't recall the names, but long ones. I did unlock and go to most of the others I think there were only 2 left. One w/ a big one like Swartlheim, one other short one.

Had I read anything negative at all about this game, anything hinting at a sequel, maybe I would have been prepared. Avengers Infinity War didn't exactly have the most clear cut ending either but I knew very well the next movie was coming next year, so I was very satisfied w/ how it ended, it was the perfect spot. I do know people who were very angry at that ending b/c it was such a cliffhanger, but I thought we all knew there was another half of the movie to go. All I've read about GoW was how great it was, GOTY, and there was no room for any DLC b/c the game was so complete it took 25-50 hours to finish. So how was I supposed to know the last 2 hours were a cut scene and 40 minutes of credits and the somewhat lame mini-boss battle was the final boss?

So there is pleasing me, it is'n' that hard really as my expectations are usually so low if I don't die playing a game it's ok. But not a peep about the ending being a prelude or anything like that. Just a very long great game. So colour me surprised.

I will make sure when 2 comes out to ask around if 3 is expected. It feels like 1 more game should do it based on what went on in this this. There could be sequels after that, but this one should be properly concluded.

Look at it this way. Sure, thsi game may feel like a complete game to you know and you may feel pleased, but let me know how you feel after playing the 2nd. I'm guessing anyone playing them back to back, maybe in a 4k bundle on PS5 will when it's all done feel like it was one long game. I can't imagine anybody finishing up the second, or 3rd if they stretch it out, thinking it wasn't necessary, 1 was fine by itself.

And while that may be true of some game series it isn't true of all. I was fine after Uncharted 1 and Uncharted 2. I thought the TR reboot ended well. I have the sequel but haven't played it yet, been busy w/ HZD and GoW. Gow may have finished what the game set out to do, but it ended poorly screaming out sequel. But nobody squealed. Usually when games ends like that everybody says so. I'm still happy I played it, but the last 2 hours were poorly done. I'd say "mean" even.

@oatmealwarrior92 you and me both buddy

@JoeBlogs I watch too many Marvel movies, I never skip the credits. Though had somebody told me they were 40 minutes I would have. I tried moving the sticks around to speed things up but no go. I'm guessing R1 or R2 would have sped things up but my wife told me not to mess w/ it. We assumed credits might be 5 or 6 minutes. Maybe 10 or 12. But 40 minutes, seriously? They were so slow, they could have doubled the speed and made them 20 and it would still be readable. ...I just wish somebody somewhere along the line would have warned me. "GoW ending sets up sequel." rather than "GoW is so long and so complete there isn't even room for DLC".

Thanks for your input, I'm aware it's not a very popular opinion.

Give me sly cooper 5.parasite eve and syphon filter.word to your mother.word up son word

@adf86 "Yes it's sequel baiting but we know there was going to be more anyway"

Actually I never viewed this game as needing a sequel b/c I just kept reading about how long it was and how great it was and how there was no room for DLC b/c it was so complete. I did think there would be a sequel where Kratos is dead and we play as Atreus, that's what old man Kratos in the game made he think, that there was a good chance he would die by the end. Of course if memory serves he also died at the end of 3.

So maybe it's my fault, maybe I should have seen this coming, but I didn't, so that's how the ending feels to me.

More exclusive remasters/remakes and IPs is music to my ears.

Great news, keep delivering the amazing exclusives Sony!
And some people (even executives) think that exclusives don't matter, hahaha.

Sony 1st party studio is on fire this gen

I'm gonna need a second job.

If "add-on" is stuff like ZD: The Frozen Wilds - Count me in.

@rjejr Man you are a ass why spoil the game for other people idiot.

@rjejr how was that ending disappointing? I swear there will always be a few gamers who are never happy no matter what a developer does. I just beat it last night after seeing people for the last month hyping up how amazing the ending was and while I guessed three of the biggest things it still hit me hard and made me scream like a girl when they dropped the bombshells at the very end while perfectly teasing where the franchise is going which you couldn’t ask for it to be done any better

@Flaming_Kaiser Which part? I've been going back and editing out anything that seems like a spoiler. Well important spoilers, I left in the part about the 40 minute credits b/c I didn't think anybody was on the edge of their seat waiting to see how long the credits were going to take to watch. Same for the ending. I think it's in people's best interest to know the ending isn't very end like. I also always call mini-boss guy Stranger which is I'm pretty sure what everybody on the internet is calling him, so no surprises there.

And if you are upset about me writing about Kratos dieing at the end of GoW 3, well that game is about 10 years old so I think the spoiler expiration date has passed.

But if there is anything else I may have missed deleting go ahead and let me know and I'll edit it out. Though I suppose if you haven't played it yet that does put you in a catch-22 huh?

They should do more deals, you know? NieR Automata, Granblue Fantasy. You know, titles that currently are available solely on their home console. (Yh yh yh, NieR is on PC)

@dark_knightmare2 "how was that ending disappointing"

Well the last boss battle was way too easy. I'm not a great gamer, I don't play on hard mode or game +, and I only played this on normal b/c sammy said I should, I usually play on easy, but I played that entire last fight waiting for something to happen. And it was so uneventful it never even dawned on me until after the game was over that it was the last fight. That wasn't a GoW last boss. There was nothing GoW about it. And then the last world, after everything it took us to get there, nothing happened. Not a thing. The only thing that happened was the credits started to roll. That was it. 40 hours of playing waiting for something great to happen, only to see credits and realize miniboss guy was the final boss. It was all just so underwhelming.

That's what I get for believing the hype I guess. Still a great game overall and deserving of the 10, but anybody I tell to play it I'm going to be like "Remember how Empire Strikes Back ended, it's like that." I mean everybody says thats one of it not the best movie, but that ending devastated me as a teen seeing it in theaters.

@rjejr the last boss wasn’t a mini boss he was your enemy the whole game and you finally got to take him down Mano a mano while the other character being vague because of spoilers was doing what they were doing that was gow all the way. You say you get to the end and nothing happens which is bollocks since you find out what happened to a whole race,you find out a certain someone’s real name,you find out a certain someone’s secret and how she was even more important to the story and lore than people realized plus what her name truly was and you see what’s going to happen in the future. You also go back home and get a truly awesome scene so no plenty happens to set up the future of the series and I can’t wait for it to continue

I feel like the quality of Sony's first party out put has improved every generation so this is good news. Hopefully next-gen they get it going quicker than nearly 3 years in though.