LOS ANGELES—Coming off last year's E3 success and healthy sales for the PlayStation 4, Sony came in to E3 in a dominant position. It exploited that position with a self-assured press conference that seemed to go on for days, packed to the gills with exclusive announcements and reveals. So it was a bit surprising to get to Sony's booth at this year's E3 and find so few actual big-name exclusives in playable form on the show floor.
Looking back, it's easy to tell that a large portion of the PS4 content Sony had showed off earlier in the week were multi-platform third-party titles, indie titles that are mostly also coming to PCs and other consoles (many of which we'll be covering in a subsequent article), or extremely early trailers for first-party games like Uncharted 4.
What was left as far as PS4 exclusives was a handful of games in extremely different states of completion and polish, many of which won't even be ready until 2015 and not one of which stood out as a real system seller. Software-wise, Sony's message at this year's E3 seems to be that the PlayStation 4 is the place for the nicest-looking versions of big third-party titles, a boatload of interesting indie games, and, for now, a token smattering of derivative first-party exclusives.
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