I wont argue with your numbers because as you pointed out, we're not sure of them at the moment.

But the thing to remember is those studios are actively supporting three platforms.  Microsoft is actively supporting one, and offering middling first party support for a second.  Their track record for funding third party games is also far stronger.

Sony's not generally into announcing tons of first party games at E3; they prefer to showcase existing stuff.

But even taking that into account... yes, the exclusive lineup looks weak. That's probably why they showed so many multiplats at the conference.

stategy.

MS announced a ton of games and still got killed at E3 by sony on price and drm.

so while a lot of MS's exclusives are known a vast majority of sony's studios remain unspoken for. which basically means sony has the upper hand going into games con as they have far more games to announce. let's make this list again in november and i think you'll find them quite even.

Ah. You know the next generation has started when people start bitching about exclusives lol.

I'm wondering though.. just how far along are those exclusives for the XB1. Because it seems like a lot of them are a long way, away from release. I mean the guy working at Insomniac Games dodged the question on what kind of genre Sunset Overdrive is going to be (interviewer asked if it was an FPS or TPS). Black Tusk's game was just an in-engine trailer, and Halo 5 CG.

At the end of the day, MS was under pressure after all the backlash they received so they needed to deliver at E3. Sony, however could just announce a few things and ride the wave, with the elephant in the room - price, used games and no drm.

don't do this... nobody said MS was lying when they announce 15 exclusives, and if one sony fan did say that, don't come out now saying "sony fans" ... one its not all, don't put words on people mouths... and if people said, kinect and live arcade, they were talking about game size (download games are smaller by nature than retail) and quality (kinect are not AAA like move only games are not AAA by nature) and NOW we are only discussing the quantity of exclusives games, 15 vs 20 "announced"... so don't mix apples and oranges...

Chandler can you update that list after gamescom? i think there might be announcements until then, and i believe sony will announce ps4 launch date at gamescom too so it might be interesting to see the lists before and after gamescom. Its at the end of August i think.

Just a reference point for the possible 'big exclusives' Sony can be currently working on internally versus smaller production.

Worldwide Studios has 3-4 big title to reveal before Q4 2014 in the form of Santa Monica, Naughty Dog, Media Molecule and Guerrilla Games. Teams like Sony Bend and Project Siren tradtionally make smaller scale games and are not consider the 'big gun'.

I don't have the same studio details for MS so I'll leave that for someone with more knowledge.

wait till GDC AND TGS 2013 to see more PS4 exclusives.

It's unconfirmed really, but you can add Deep Down for ps4.

Evidence seems to point that it's ps4 exlusive though.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/01/deep-down-ono-explains-why-capcom-is-making-a-new-ip-for-ps4/

If you believe the numbers they gave us about first party games, Microsoft showed pretty much their whole hand and Sony is holding back a lot. So I guess that's what happened.