PS4 News: 30 First Party Titles in Development, Sony Promises Announcements Closer to Fall Release Date at Gamescom

Sony is going all out to get ready for the launch of the PlayStation 4, with over two dozen first party games in development by Sony's development studios. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Jim Ryan spoke to Gamereactor, revealing the scope of the initiative. 

"At the event in New York on February 20 of this year, we showed a lot of software...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?"

Gamescom is another video game expo similar to E3, which will be taking place from August 21-25 in Cologne, Germany. Since Sony and their development studios have not yet announced nearly enough titles to fulfill the 30 games proclamation. First party games from Sony include Killzone: Shadow Fall, Knack, Infamous: Second Son, and DriveClub.

If Sony is indeed grinding out 30 games for the first few years of the PlayStation 4's life, the company would be beating out Microsoft in terms of volume of titles. Microsoft is prepared to launch 15 exclusives for the Xbox One in the first year of the console's life, eight of which will be new IP's. It will be interesting to see how well they do once the consoles and titles are released. Will Sony's onslaught of titles be able to overpower Microsoft's fewer titles? Let's find out.