In my experience with Sony, they announce games wayyyyyy before they come out for the most part. I wouldnt be shocked by the regulars to be announced but nothing releasing until a year later.

You must not know what "just about" means. And even then, there was still a decline over the previous installment, so your example just proves my point lol. Prequels with subtitles are mainline now? Are you for real?

Does PS4 need a competing SIM? If you really don't think releasing a game on an a console after its successor comes out is pretty much universally going to result in decreased sales, I don't know what to say. The fact that you have the word "sales" in your username but are oblivious to such basic trends is honestly hilarious.

GT6 was completed when it was completed. Sony can't magically schedule it to a more opertune time, and had they switched it to a PS4 title, they would have wasted a lot of resources and probably seen equivalent sales due to the limited install base. There was going to be a tradeoff no matter what they did with it. And again, the fact that you think one spin-off in a series is indicative of an entire trend of decline within the IP just speaks to your knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding sales.

God Of War IV is my most anticipated game till it is released lol, and I'm talking about all platforms.

PD is a relatively small team, 2013 was crunch time for GT6. Maybe they set some people aside to start the brainstorming phase but that said, the game took 3 years on a console they had experience with. Logically, it would take at least that long to make a sequel, unless they again take advantage of you guys with a cash grab prologue or GT6 remaster.

Reach was a decline, but still sold 9.5 million. Mainline implies the games aren't spinoffs, which Gears and GOW weren't. Halo Wars, ODST, those are not considered mainline. Gears J and GOW A were therefore mainline.

I find it funny how you poke fun at my username and not appreciating the circumstances......yet ignore the incompetance of a multinational corporation in terms of scheduling for their #1 IP release. I am just saying a GT fan wouldn't be detered by the release of the PS4 to buy their favourite game. That and the game just doesn't offer too much over GT5 to warrant a purchase.

The PS4 releases may very well do better then their last entries. Congrats. Doesn't change the present, no matter how much you are hilariously trying to sugar coat it. Man up and deal. It isn't personal. Gears of War is my thing and I accept what happened. Whatever. You deal and hope the next one brings the magic back.

agreed. no way on earth could PD ever hire new people. 

If there was a massive hiring spree, id think the gaming media would have picked up on that. Regardless, best to wait and see.

lol all other then GT are last gens new ips.  While MS is riding Halo since its first console and Ninty is still majority Mario.

Al other than GT and GOW you mean. Also to reply to his comment Sony does depend on their big guns like everyone else but they also create more new IPs and try different things IMO that is. Just thinking about things like Folklore(l loved that game), Heavenly Sword(even though it didn't do all that great), Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, Uncharted, TLOU, LBP, Infamous, Resistance, Journey, Flower,Tales of Xilla, Ni no Kuni etc (I left out games from the PS era on purpose like Killzone, Rachet and Clank, MLB: The Show etc). Now all those games may not have sold or got a very good meta score but they are games Sony gave cahnces and tried out. I think that is one of the reasons they never got as much flak as MS/Nin.

The bitterness coming from MS die-hard fans is so delightful :)



I think it's a risky bet to think that a company with such an awesome development record and so many dev team like Sony will suddenly lose to MS with their skimpy history of exclusives and number of dev teams. If anything, what we're gonna see is the power of Sony's battle-tested and talented teams vs the power of MS money.