Sony: PS4 Will Receive an Unprecedented Rush of Games in 2016

Hopefully my favourite series (Final Fantasy) will finally return. I look forward to many titles Street Fighter 5, Resident Evil 0, Witness, Persona, Star Ocean, Shadow of the Beast...

Might have to resign so I have enough time to play everything. First game to look forward to, Banner Saga on 12th of Jan! That's going to be awesome.

As someone who doesn't enjoy typically Japanese games or 'indies', 2d platformers/side scrollers etc, 2016 doesn't hold much for me in terms of PS4 exclusives. Obviously games like Uncharted 4 and Horizon: Zero Dawn are very high on my list but apart from 'Hellblade' I can't think of any other that interests meat the moment. Its better than 2015 though as not one of the Exclusives appealed - particularly at the price they were asking.

Just realized after the never ending news it's been at least a month since anything on No Man's Sky. And I'm thankful for that.

April has R&C and U4, and after a huge demo and update FFXV really should be ready to come out this year. And if Dreams releases alongside the VR headset - without needing it - then that's enough for me. I'll wait for Star Ocean to hit half price after I finally finish off XCX sometime in the spring.

Some of the games on my list...

Dark Souls 3, FFXV, Ratchet and Clank, FFVII, No Man's Sky, and all the others mentioned above.... I'll need a tardis to be able to play them all before the end of 2016.

In 2015 xbox had Ori, Rare Replay, Gears Remake, Halo 5, Forza 6 and Tomb Raider.

Obviously playstation couldn't compete with just Uncharted right?
I suppose it's a good thing then that we also had Grim Fandango Remastered, The Order: 1886 (which alot of people really enjoyed), Bloodborne, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Rocket League, Soma, Tearaway Unfolded, Tales of Zestiria, Dragon Quest Heroes, Until Dawn and a whole lot more for download, but ofcourse none of that matters because 1. They are on playstation which alot of online publications are still biased against and 2. The interests of the general mainstream aka morons who mostly just play cod/fifa are all that people care about.

So again that's 6 games to Xbox to a minimum of 11 for PlayStation, but yh indiestation 4 ofcourse still "Haz no GaemZ!"

@rjejr No Man's What? Never heard of it! Of course I completely forget about games if they aren't shoved down my throat every seven minutes.

Definitely looking forward to 2016! It's shaping up to be a very big year industry-wide! My PS4 has just been picking up steam as time goes by and then with the possible launch of NX I think we may have an epic three-way clash of titans on our hands once again.

@TheLobster I am really curious about NX, but my mind is made up on getting a PS4 next year, NX will likely have to wait, how long depends on price, and what my kids might want for Christmas. And what it is - home, portable, or both. I've really already made up my mind that PS4 is my last console, then I retire from gaming and just play on whatever my kids own. If VR is the future I'm staying in the past.

@viciousarcanum
Well, both consoles had tons of exclusives, especially on the digital side, but journalists will generally list exclusives being published just by Sony or Microsoft themselves, and if you do that then yes, Microsoft does have a better line-up (I guess). Of course, once you start to look at 3rd party publishers (especially from Japan) you start to see that overall, the PS4 has more exclusives.

But none of this matters depending on what your tastes in videogames are. Personally, I like (mostly) Japanese games, especially jrpgs and games with strong female protagonists. So both the Xbox and Ps4 disappointed me to some extent in 2015 (I own both).

2016 is going to be an amazing year with the likes of The Last Guardian, Horizon, R&C, Dreams, Street Fighter V, Alienation, Persona V, Dark Souls 3, Uncharted 4 & Gravity Rush 1&2 etc. I have quite a big backlog of PS4 games as it is, I just got Tearaway Unfolded, Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare & Shovel Knight I would have been crazy not to for under the price of a full game.

@rjejr I wish they'd held off on what seemed like a pretty premature media blitz and saved it for closer to release. It would have been particularly effective to showcase No Man's Sky around the release of The Force Awakens. I was actually thinking about the game while watching it.

@viciousarcanum Also Pirate Warriors 3. One of my small number of platinums, there.

Problem with the Xbox, as always, is if you don't care about being a big, butch American soldier shooting aliens, a lot of the appeal disappears in the form of Gears and Halo. It's particularly unimpressive here because one was a remake and the other is made by a totally different groups of devs. It's Halo because of copyright laws, not because of who made it.

There does seem to be some kind of PS bias in the American media, as others have pointed out, since it seems PS4 owners are always being asked to defend the PS4 even though it's plain to see that the vast majority of gamers prefer it. As I've said before, rather than looking at which console has the most exclusives, look at which ones lack the least games. When you organise it that way, it goes PS4 > Xbone > Wii U, which just so happens to be the order of preference of gamers.

2015 was supposed to be the 'best lineup in Xbox history' while it was very good - imo, better than PS4 when factoring in exclusives and the kind of games I like to play - it was hardly the best year in Xbox history, that still belongs to 2007. So, I don't buy the hype, show don't tell and frankly Sony has only been doing a lot of talking, at least in regards to first party content, and before 2016 has already started, Uncharted 4 suffered another delay.

Um, isn't that just Greatness Awaits in PR Form?

Unprecedented? Please look forward to it? Déjà vu anyone?

Though to be serious, it does seem like first party have received their wake up call. Emphasis on the seem, there are some studios that have been in hiding for far too long. At least two (different) games will be delayed.

Uncharted 4, -hopefully- New Hot Shots Golf, Ratchet And Clank, Gravity Rush, Gravity Rush 2 and The Last Guardian are the ones I'm hoping for! Playstation VR as long as the price is right, and I'm hoping for a new game to come either this year or next year for the following: Twisted Metal, Sly Cooper, Jak And Daxter (Probably not) and I'm also hoping for The Sims 4 and a new Harvest Moon to come! If this happens, after I install my 3TB hard drive, then I'm set to go!!!

I do have to say, that I haven't been disappointed in PS4's 2015 games...even though there hasn't been a bunch of exclusive games, there has definitely been a wide variety...may sports, horror, platformers, adventure, action, RPG, strategy, puzzles, simulations, racing and party games have led the way to a great console so far, and many more to come.

@JLPick
No shortage of stuff to play on PS4 there's no question about that. When people, especially my friends who only game on Wii U, tell me PS4 has a bad lineup, I laugh. But I do think Sony needs to be called out on the first party content, it's not cutting it. Much of it is remasters and aside from inFamous: Second Son, Bloodborne and Until Dawn, the non-remasters have been pretty lame. That said, PS4 was my most played in console in 2015, and counting digital and physical purchases I'm probably already upwards of 40 games. I'm as critical as anybody but credit where it's due, a good game, multiplat or exclusive, is a good game and PS4 has plenty of them.

As a multi-console owner and a PC gamer, this generation has been pretty underwhelming so far (for the home consoles at least). PS4 and XB1 are taking forever to build up a library of games that I can only play on them, where as Nintendo's handling of the Wii U has been incredibly bad though I will say I do own one and enjoy the games very much.

For me, I've been waiting for the library of exclusive games, games that are hard to obtain elsewhere, and features I want to start building up on PS4 and XB1. XB1 got to that point by the end of 2015 for me, so I took advantage of deals and bought it. PS4 is currently not at the point where it's a buy for me but it'll definitely be next year sometime.

However, the fact it took PS4 and XB1 this long to really start taking off exclusive wise doesn't do a lot to help my confidence in their futures. Sure they do have some really good looking games coming out in 2016 and beyond but 2+ years to really get going is way longer then the norm. By the 2nd year, PS3 and 360 had quite a bit of really high quality exclusives on them. Even Vita and Wii U, with their abysmal sales, had much more in the way of exclusive games at the 2-year mark.

In the end I'll own every system this gen but currently, I'm not happy with how things are.

@kdognumba1 How can you say the x1 is at a point you can buy but the ps4 is not? They are practically the same price. As a gamer you surely must be aware of the positives of backing Sony, they support a multitude of developers and were clearly hedging their bets at the start of this gen before igniting the green light on its multitude of first party titles. I would of done the same - loads of people within the industry were all spelling the end of consoles. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your stance, PS4 is a success and has been for some time - we will now see a crazy amount of games developed specifically for the ps4.

@themcnoisy
Owning both consoles, I can see where people are coming from regarding the Xbox One topping PS4. There's certain things that keep me more on PS4, like the fact it's only seconds before I can start playing a game vs. the Xbox One which has to go through an install process that can be quite annoying but the X1 does play the multiplats well enough and from an exclusive standpoint unless you're big into Japanese games the X1 has a bit more to offer in Titanfall, Rise of the Tomb Raider (for the next year), Forza Horizon 2 and Motorsport 6, Dead Rising 3, Sunset Overdrive... It really comes down to what kind of games you like but I think right now the X1 has the better list. This year, however, looks like we might start to see the PS4 get healthier on that front although the delay of Uncharted 4 before 2016 even began doesn't fill me with confidence.

"Rush" seems to be a poor choice of words though!