It looks as if, according to some sources, that Sony is just not in the same financial place that they were in in the 7th Gen to keep pushing out in-house exclusive after exclusive in the 8th gen to be the winner at the end of the 8th gen in the same fashion as they did in the 7th Gen with PS3.  Especially not with Microsoft putting so much emphasis and money into exclusives for the Xbox One.  One would think this could be a problem for Playstation 4 going forward.

However, Sony totally dominated the 6th Gen due to third party exclusives and very little of their dominating performance in the 6th gen was brought about by having a siginificant amount of shining 1st and 2nd party exclusives.

Unfortunately, during the 7th gen, due to initially poor Playstation 3 sales, these same third parties that enabled Sony to win the 7th Gen in such a commanding fashion switched over to making Xbox versions of their games as well.

Thus far, Sony's Playstation 4 has been the dominant console of the 8th Gen.  Do you think there's any way that PS4 could outsell the other consoles in such a fashion that they could earn back the type of exclusive third party support that allowed PS2 to literally crush its competition?  And what do you think the magic number would be for Playstation that would bring all those developers back to Playstation with such strong support that it would offset Microsoft's dedication to upcoming exclusives and allow PS4 to dominate the 6th gen in the same fashion PS2 did the 6th with third party exclusives like Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Metal Geat Solid, etc?  

Definitely not. Sony don't seem to have much interest in making exclusive deals, and 3rd parties are now playing it much safer with multiplatform releases.

i think ps4 will get many 3party exclusives but most of its will be AA and indies and very rare AAA

So, basically, it looks like Sony's going to have problems this gen. Because how are they going to win the 8th Gen IF Microsoft is going to push out 10 exclusives a year that everyone is going to drool over and Sony can only manage 3 or 4?

agreed.  even if xbox only sells 20M and ps4 sells 150M as long as those 20M xbox users buy games they'll still get multiplates from the big publishers.

..the indie scene is the only place sony may secure free exclusives.

I don't think that will happen. It would only occur when putting out titles for the Xbox One becomes unprofitable, or worse, take losses. Even when the PS4's install base quadruples the XBox's, the audience on the XBox, small as it may be, is still the audience that buys those games, making a port generally profitable. I times like these, with the high development costs, publishers will want every penny they can get.

Why do we keep having ppl with these stupid trheads about PS4 lacking exclusives, it anounced like 5 at E3 and we know there are 3 other studios at least working in one each.

Its not a Sony problem that AAA exclusives dont rain down on us on this gen, its because it takes forever to develop them on current standards of quality, graphical fidely etc. No company 3rd or 1st partie is producing games as fast as they were last gen, we can count in one hand the big games comming next 2-3 months (hell we can pretty much count in 1 hand the bi games that came last 2-3 months as well).

2015 will probably have more games for both Ms and Sony but I dont see it beeing nearly as prolific as the best years of last gen.

I dont know the exact number but if Sony has less exclusives anounced than MS its like 1 or 2. Also Ms almost dont have first partie exclusives, its mostly third parties games they finance to get exclusive deals (like Titanfall and Sunset Overdrive).

I think it's actually a static hardware problem, myself, and simply a natural thing about the industry at large.  When you work on the same hardware for 8 years, without ever really expanding into the emerging technologies during that timeframe, there's a ton that passes you by.  Yes, they are 'aware' of it, and may even look into it in some depth, but not actually having your hands wrapped around it for the bulk of a consoles lifecycle has it's disadvantages for the next generation.

First off..... sony doesn't have an exclusive problem. And to feed into that argument kinda tells me you lack the ability to look at obvious facts and process them for yourself. Sony has still got 17-19 studios that are of the SWWS group. Those guys rae all making games, and this gen so far sony already has 5 new IPs that are coming within its first 18 months on the market. And that is just talking about new exclusive IPs.

If you like most others, honestly just sat down and looked at the facts, you will see that sony doesn't have an exclusives problem. That is just what a lot of fans of the other platforms want to spread around meanwhile lacking any exclusives to show for themselves in comparison.

And this third party exclusive nonsense is simply never happenning anymore. If nothing else the consoles are too similar. Too easy to just port a game over from one platform to the next. Further more, why does sony need third party exclusives? Do you realize that every game is an exclusive to the gamer that owns only one console?

I think there will be niche jrpg that will be ps4 exclusive but apart from that, I doubt it... But least theres exclusive content lolll :/