Shuhei Yoshida States That "We ( Sony ) Have Work To Do" When It Comes To Releasing More "AAA" exclusive games.

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LipeJJ said:

Mr.Playstation said:

He then went on to say that the lack of "AAA" exclusives games is due to the popularity of the PS4 where he feels that exclusives are not needed as much, due to an increase in third party games being released on the system.

That's all I wanted to hear. It's still lame and shameful, but at least he admits it. And that's why I always say Sony was better when they failed with the PS3 and had to catch up... they ended up releasing a ton of big and medium sized games. I honestly hope the XB1 sells amazingly well this holiday and make PS4 sales stay flat so maybe Sony wakes up.

I really don't think that's what he was saying since it runs pretty much opposite to the rest of his statement.

Well, it depends on how you look at things. Typically - it's ironic in a sense, when a platform's doing really well, studio side kind of struggles. It probably has some relationship to these two things. When a platform's doing well, third-parties support it more. So from a pure software standpoint, there'll be more competition. When the platform's not doing so well, our games become more prominent, and we get larger market share within the same platform. Because we continue to support the PS3, in the launch year of the PS4 we had The Last of Us and Gran Turismo 6 and Beyond and so on, many games, we were still working hard. We're just head-down, focussed on delivering the games for the near future. We're happy with how it's going, and we're excited about welcoming PlayStation VR. From a delivering games standpoint, we have work to do. People constantly ask us for the big exclusive triple-A games.

 

He's saying that when you have a lot of third-party support, exclusives tend to get a smaller piece of the pie as far as sales go. Because there is more competition from third party games.

He actually says "We're just head-down, focussed on deliverying the games for the near future. We're happy with how it's going."

The thread title is way off base and more than a bit misleading.