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It's hard to argue with Sony's first half of 2017. The PlayStation 4 has enjoyed a number of exciting console exclusives, including Horizon: Zero Dawn, Nier Automata, Persona 5 and Nioh. But after watching Sony's E3 2017 media briefing this week, I couldn't help but feel the next six months look decidedly pedestrian in comparison.Rather than show off games due out in time for Christmas 2017, Sony focused on games due out in 2018 and, potentially, beyond. Under normal circumstances, this approach would have got the blood of the hundreds of thousands watching online pumping, but most of the games on show had already been announced. Sure, we got the announcement of a Horizon expansion, but Sony's briefing sparked the same question as Microsoft's: where were the big, triple-A blockbuster console exclusive game announcements?
That wasn't the only hot topic to follow Sony's press conference. One of the stories that developed over the course of E3 week had to do with Sony's apparent refusal to play ball with other console makers for cross-platform play. Microsoft scored a PR win when it announced Minecraft would be playable cross-platform on PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Then Nintendo announced Rocket League with cross-platform play between PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Sony, it seems, doesn't want anything to do with it.
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