Thats because in all honesty the only big exclusives announced so far are Killzone, The Order, Infamous, Drive Club, and Knack. Knack is not impressive and Drive Club has been a mixed bag so far.
Most of the indie games announced are smaller projects, not the type of games you would buy a PS4 for. Such small projects were never taking such a coverage in the past. Now they do because they are selling the idea of "indie game support" and the PSN support
The majority of the third party games are the the "I have seen it before" type that lack the next generational punch we used to see from past generational transitions.
The f2p games are good, but nothing mindblowing. Its like watching at existing PC games seeing a port to the PS4.
When the PS3 was announced in 2005, (even though through smoke and mirrors in some of the examples) they showed us the return of Warhawk, Killzone, Gran Turismo, The Getaway (unreleased), Motorstorm, Eyedentity (unreleased), Killing Day (unreleased), Heavenly Sword, Eight Days (unreleased), Fifth Phantom Saga (unreleased), Gandam (which was crap eventually), an F1 game, Unreal Tournament, Final Night,a new exclusive Final Fantasy game ( they crapped our pants with a FF7 tech demo that looked amazing), Ni Oh (unreleased), a Cowboy game from Rockstar (I cant remember which one that was) and Tekken.
At TGS we saw DMC (was announced exclusive at the time), MGS4, Final Fantasy 13 and Versus 13 (announced exclusives), Resident Evil 5 (suspected to be exclusive), Genji 2 and Eye of Judgement on top of the previous mindblowing announcements.
I cant remember when they also showed Uncharted for the first time which was also mindblowing.
They showed a bucket load of stuff to look forward to, of which most were expected to be exclusives and almost all looked mighty impressive and like nothing we have seen before.
I went back watching the 2005 Sony conference to refresh my mind and damn did it have a punch. It was a very powerful presentation. Its probably Sony's biggest and most powerful presentation ever. It had huge content with one impressive demonstration and announcement coming after the next
Its hard to deny that PS4 announcements were somewhat modest compared to the PS3's.
This is excatly my point!
This is my exact feeling!
Launch a new console with just 3/4 AAA games and then ... nothing?!?!
This behaviour/strategy could be good or excellent during years 3, 4 etc.., but at launch.. Come on!
To me this is THE WORST launch in Sony history.
You need AAA games on launch windows but you also need something to dream of for the future.
There is clearly something wrong here!
And please do not tell me again about the 15 indie titles or the 2 years old games F2P...
And speaking about future titles:
-) Santa Monica: GoW:As: March 2013 (second or first studio helping with The Order)
-) ND: First Studio TLoU June 2013 ; Second Studio (Uncharted 3...) November 2011;
-) Mediamolecule: Team Buddies ( and maybe one other casual/camere oriented game)
-) Polyphony: GT6 December 2013
-) Guerrilla, Second Studio (working on Vita?, exists?)
-) Japan: Knack, TLG (?)...
-) Quantic Dream: BtS Ocrober 2013.
The next 2-3 year doesn't look so bright in terms of Sony exclusive AAA games!!!
Or people out there are aware of other things that I do not know?
A part for ND second studio (Uncharted 3), I do not see many other things for the next 2 year of PS4!
In my poor opinion, Sony need to put heavy money on 3rd AAA party exlcusives, because I fear that when the first wave of Sony mega fan supportes will end, normal consumers, and gamers will necessary begin to ask about games, exclusive games!!!
A tangible reason to choose PS4 over X1 !
I do not know, I hate to pass as mad, but why people do not complain about what Sony is doing? They are all happy with the chat about Husa or 50% more powerfull vcard?
Or everyone is intoxicated by the NeoGAF pro Sony campain?
Clearly the majority of them are about my same age at the time of my Amiga500, but not all of them!
Do you remeber the launch of PS1, 2 or also 3?
Now, have seen what MS has prepared for the launch?
-) Crytek
-) Remedy
-) Insomniac
-) Titanfall (plat exclusive)
-) New Forza
-) Exclusive Capcom
-) Minor games but fan favorite like Crimson Dragon & KI;
-) A new Fable;
-) Some motion sensing stuff (KS)
-) Fifa free in EU (my country)
This is the start. And then (as Sony) there is the clouded future with much probably:
-) Halo,
-) Crackdown
-) Alan Wake (?)
-) Gear of War (?)
-) PGR (?)
-) Lionhead 2nd (exists?)
-) Rare 2ns (exists?)
-) New studio Ninja games
-) Probably the new Epic IP...
To compete with:
-) GoD
-) Uncharted
-) TLoU
-) GT7
Are you still asking me why I am disappointed with Sony?
Are you still asking me why I am asking games to Sony in exchange of my money?