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Aura7541 on 15 October 2014
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CommonNinja said:
Aura7541 said:

Looking at what the X1 has to offer next year, I'm hardly convinced that Microsoft is "going in hard". Yes, there is likely more games in store and MS just haven't revealed them yet. However, Sony has already done that since Gamescom and announced even more games in Pre-TGS.

There are two major problems with the X1's 2015 exclusive lineup, so far: lack of diversity and consolidation of release dates to holiday season. Phil Spencer is right that you have to bring your A game into holiday season, but you also have to bring it during the first 8 months. It is because of this that the PS4 widened the sales gap this year. Halo 5 is undeniably huge and will sell more than Uncharted 4. However, even a huge game like Halo 5 cannot cancel out the deficit from January to August. It is important to sell consistently well all year around.

The lack of diversity is also concerning. Fable Legends, Scalebound, Phantum Dust, Halo 5, and Quantum Break, they all fall under the shooter and action categories. Great for gamers whose favorite genres are action and shooters, but bad for those who have other tastes. While the western market is primarily fans of these two genres, there are western gamers who also like platformers, western and Japanese RPGs, hack n' slash, survival/horror, and sandbox. Looking at the PS4's 2015 lineup, you see Uncharted 4, Bloodborne, Wild, The Order: 1886, Rime, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Tomorrow Children, Until Dawn, Disgaea 5, Dragon Quest Heroes, Ys, God Eater 2, Persona 5, MLB 15: The Show, and Let it Die. Shadow of the Beast, N++, and Deep Down are also in the mix though they don't have general release dates yet. And nevermind the several timed exclusives the PS4 will be getting, too, like The Witness, Hellblade, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Abzu, and No Man's Sky, and the obligatory remasters like the Uncharted Trilogy Remastered Edition and Beyond: Two Souls Director's Cut. Will all these games sell like gangbusters? No, but the important takeaway here is that they appeal to a very wide demographic as opposed to a narrow one.

Your forgetting Xbox exclusives like Screamride, Below, Cuphead, Cobalt, class 4, FRU, Nero, Raiden 5, Smite, and more.

Not to mention some timed exclusives like superhot, goat simulator, Inside, and more.

Bottom line, Xbox will be fine.

Huh... I've never heard of these and after looking up some of them, I wasn't impressed and they're small fries in comparison to what the PS4 will be having. FRU requires the Kinect, which no one is buying ever since the debundling. Goat Simulator has already been on the PC for months. Below and Cuphead are also coming out on the PC. Same with Cobalt plus Mac OS, Linux, and the 360. The PS4 has a lot more to offer with its best cards still held tightly to Sony's chest. We still don't know Guerilla, Guerilla Cambridge, Sony Bend, Santa Monica Studio, Sony London, Media Molecule, and Quantic Dream's new projects.

I also forgot to mention Alienation by Housemarque earlier and while not coming out until 2016, Dinosaurum Games will be releasing Without Memory. It's hard to keep track when so many games are coming out to the PS4 for the next few years