Monster Hunter World was announced at E3 2017.

It released in JANUARY of this year.

For me, that is like ... a dream. I totally did not expect it to release so soon after being announced. And I think currently Playstation/Microsoft and Nintendo are both on extreme sides. I'd prefer something in the middle, announce a game 8 or so months before it releases.

Don't care. There are plenty of games to play on PS4 (and other systems) while the next barrage is en route.

a more character driven story in the realms of the last of us is my hook, which none of the other zombie games u mention have. I would gladly take a clone of the last of us with a different story in an open world setting, and one of the biggest reason i loved last of us apart from the story was the element surviving, scavenging and the different level of threats from infected and human enemies, so For me Days Gone is the last of us on steroid. Also Sony bend has a great pedigree and have made some really great games.. syphon filter, resistance retribution, Uncharted golden Abyss, so i think they deserve benefit of doubt.

I don't mind hearing about games well in advance but I can understand that some may find Sony's announcements to come a bit too soon.

My theory is that since games take years and years to be made, Sony and the studios working for it, wish to test the waters by announcing their games early rather than working many years on a game for which they don't really know if people are hyped or maybe they want to get some feedback which sometimes help shape up the final game and such feedback works better if caught early.

I think it's part of the gaming culture to announce games early to build hype and to see what people say about the games devs work on for years. But perhaps Sony announces a bit too early, it's a valid argument.

I certainly prefer to have a few surprise announcements, but that’s not the only way to surprise people or provide an exciting show. I’d rather see awesome new footage of an already-announced awesome game than see a world premiere for a turd.

I was admittedly disappointed with Sony’s 2017 E3, but for my taste, I’ll still take their showings over those for MS/XBO (and even Nintendo, albeit to a lesser degree). I do think Sony is being more careful about their announcements due to some of the criticism they’ve received, but whether they announce ps4 exclusives too early or not, they have a steady stream of high quality exclusives, and that’s what I care about the most.

Except a lot of the world premiere's at xbox conference werent turds. They revealed Forza 7, assassins creed origins, metro exodus, life is strange: before the storn, dragonball fighterZ, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Anthem at that conference, along with a few indies like The Last Night(which is probably what you were referring as turds). There were a lot of other announcements, like PUBG coming to X1 and Minecraft getting crossplay, cuphead release date, and of course, Xbox One X blowout.

Compared to Monster Hunter World and Shadow of the Collosus remake for Sony (and some vr stuff). The rest of the space were taken up by already announced stuff. Also, we got 0 release dates. 

Yeah, Playstation obviously is much better in the department for exclusives, as you said, but I feel like MS crafted a better conference last year.

The 2016 playstation conference was goat tier, the best conference of this generation period imo, I'll give you that.

Well, I wasn’t necessarily referring to MS/XBO when I made the turd comment. Was more of a general statement. Tho, I will admit my frustration continues that, to date, the only XBO exclusive I’ve actually liked is Cuphead—which was freakin awesome (in fairness, I haven’t started Sunset Overdrive yet).

I can see what you’re saying about the world premieres in MS’s conference last year, as well as them crafting an overall better conference. The only thing for me is that 5 of those 7 games you mentioned are multiplat, and one of XBO’s two actual exclusives comes like clockwork bi-annually (and is announced like clockwork the E3 before it’s release)—and that’s my issue. But either way, no denying Sony’s E3 last year was lacking and disappointing. SotC was the only thing that truly felt like a killer moment to me. Several sources mentioned Sony removed one or a few things from their conference at the last minute, which would make sense considering it was so uncharacteristically short.

Oh, and no! I actually think The Last Night looks sweet!

I think it’s a smart strategy cause it generates hype around the console. Nintendo seems to mostly do the opposite and it’s kind of worrying not knowing whether they’ll have something other than Smash for 2018.
That being said, it’s a little annoying to get hyped about something that wont be coming for at least another couple of years...

Then the less than 1 year should take precedence. 2-3 years for a hyped game that is also a new ip I suppose is more common, like Horizon Zero Dawn.

Not sure about Sony in particular, but in general I hate it. The main argument is that it generates hype, but does it? Half the time people start making jokes about how long it's taking to come out and lose interest. It does quite the opposite of generating hype in fact.