Sony has confirmed that during the first year of the PS4 being available, there will be 20 exclusives with 12 of them being new franchises coming to the system. Sony's first-party studios have 30 games in development for the PlayStation 4, which is way more games that they had for the PS3 when it launched in 2006. That's according to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Jim Ryan, who told Gamereactor at E3 that more titles would be unveiled at Gamescom in August.
"At the event in New York on February 20 of this year, we showed a lot of software," he explained. "We showed a lot of first-party software. What we did at E3 here was really show some updates to those games, and, as you mentioned, introduce The Order: 1886. There’s a lot coming.
"I’m sure you heard from [SCE Worldwide Studios boss] Shu [Yoshida] that he has—just his studios—he has 30 games in development. 20 of them are going to ship within the first year of the console’s life, and of those, 12 are new IP.
"So there’s a lot going on, it’s just that we need to keep stuff back. We’ve got Gamescom for us Europeans—we need to have something to show at Gamescom, don’t we?"
This is 5 more exclusives than Microsoft announced, which isn't a surprise. Sony's huge first party studio has always had the upper hand with exclusives, and with the ease of development of the PS4, you can expect more than on the PS3.
