It's time for the main event! Let's start and watch that traditional PlayStation sizzle reel.
Some sales figures about the Vita. Vita owners love their games. A list of Vita games are announce. In brief message. Including Batman Arkham Orignis, CounbterSpy, Destiny of Spirtis, Doki Doki Universe, Final Fantasy X / X-2, Walking Dead 400 days, Tearaway, God of War HD 1 & 2, Flower, Dead Nation, and Killzone Mercenarys, There are 85 vita games coming in this year. +1 point for continuing to support the Vita
PlayStation 3. The Last of Us is shown. This game releases on Friday and has been receiving rave reviews all around, and currently sits at a 96 MetaCritic. Puppeteer, A sidescroller whimsical 2-D platformer, Rain an interesting Indie title, Beyond Two Souls. A ssupernatural story about Judy Holmes played by Ellen Paige with excellent production values. Gran Turismo 6, a racing game and the next installment of one of the most popular PlayStation exclusive franchises. +1 for first party support on the current console. Microsoft only showed 3rd party support.
Batman: Arkaham origins is shown. The next installmen is a prequel in the award winning Batman Arkham series. Black Mask appears to be the main villain. DeathStroke, Bane, and The Joker are also shown as villains. Exclusive DLC is also shown +0.5 points extra Batman is exclusive to PlayStation platform
A Grand Theft Auto PlayStation with an exclusive headset is shown. No Price given.
PlayStation 4 reveal. It's a Black rectangle. Can people stop complaining? It looks like it also comes with a camera.
Sony Pictures CEO takes the stage. Cutting Edge programming delivered to PlayStation? 0 Points no details Music Unlimited , NetFlix, RedBox Instant, Crackle, Crunchy Roll, Amazon. Will be coming to as well. Flixter and Pay Per View including WWE will be coming to PlayStation. 0 points. We are here to talk games, but this needed to be touched on.
New IP Reveal from Ready at Dawn Studio. It is advertised as in gameplay engine. I'm getting a London SteamPunk vibe. Does WhiteChapel mean anything? The Order 1866 the characters fought off some sort of creature. +1 Point
Updates and new trailers for Killzone ShadowFall, Drive Club, Infamous Second Son, and Knack Knack, Drive Club, and Killzone are Launch titles, Infamous is Q1 2014 +0.5 points.
The Dark Sorcerer: A new IP from Quantic Dream. It appears to be more comedic and broke the 4th wall. A change of pace for Quantic Dream +1 Point
Super Giant Games, creator of Bastion shows Transistor, It looks a lot like Bastion which is a very good thing. Clay Entertaniment. Creators of Shank and Mark of the Ninja. bring Don't Starve. Tribute Games creator of the Scott Pilgram bring Merceary Kings, Young Horses a bring Octodad deadlist catch, Switchblade Monekeys bring Secret Ponchos, Rag Tag Studios, bring a stealth game where you control a zombie army , Red Barrels brings Outlast a first person horror game, A new game from Oddworld Inhabatints bring Oddworld remake New and Tasty coming to PS4, 17bit games creator of skulls of the Shogun, bring a side scroller space shooter Galaxy, Indie devlopers are flocking to PlayStation. This was a big discussion at the Game Devloper's Confernce this year. More of them than I can keep up with. From what I understand Inide devlopers have had difficulty working with Microsoft. +1 Point
Blizzard brings Diablo III to PS3 and PS4. With exclusive items +0.25 points. I will finally play it.
SquareEnix shows a trailer. A Sci-Fi / Fantasy hack and slash spectacle Final Fantasy Versus XIII has become Final Fantasy XV. A tease announcing another title. Kingdom Hearts 3 It's about damn time for this Disney love letter to get a proper sequel.! I can't wait, but we will be waiting, but we know it is finally worth the wait. Final Fantasy XIV will come to consoles. I heard they finally fixed that game +2 points
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Pirates. I want to love this series so badly, but it is an abusive relationship that I keep coming back to. It looks great, but I said the Same thing about part II & III +0.5 points, because I will come back for even if it is only a rental.
Watch Dogs again.It seems like Ubisoft presented the Trailers, and Sony gets the demos. It still looks outstanding, but for some reason I actually get less interested in this game the more I hear about it. An exclusive hour of gameplay for PlayStation +0.5 points.
2K games shows NBA 2K14 with a humorous clip featuring LeBron James +0.5 Points
Bethesda shows Elder Scrolls Online. I'm not an Elder Scrolls fan, but I think a lot of people just went ape shit for this game. +0.5 points
World Premier: Mad Max Not an IP that I am familiar with. PlayStation will have a piece of exclusive content. +0.25 games. It didn't look that interesting...
No Used Game Restrictions (A Sony Chant takes over the theater) +1 point
No Online DRM for disc based games. (Pot shot at Microsoft no 24 hour check in required) +1 point
Media Services will continue to not require additional subscription via PS Plus
PS Plus will be getting Drive Club as well as other free PS4 games
A gameplay reveal for Destiny. At this point I could hardly care. The graphics look great. As long as headsets are easier and more affordable this time around I will be playing this +0.5 points
Cloud gaming via GaiKai will be making streaming games starting in 2014. There is our backwards compatibility problem dealt with 0 points. It is still a long way off, but if this works It will be amazing
$399 Price Point! Consumor ownership and trust is something Sony values in it's customers. And enjoy a outro sizzle reel +1 point
Final Score 14 points
+More Indie games than I could keep with
+No Used Game Restrictions!
+No online requirement for single player games.
+ $39 Price Point
+Games, Games and Games!
-Not long enough to show all the Games
-No sign of The Last Guardian
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