Except that Sony isn't keeping quiet though. In terms of talking about post-March releases, Sony has been the most active on that front. They've had media events talking about MLB, Helldivers and The Order. They've also dripped some information in their blog for these titles...
MS have been extremely loud in the past 2 months, but if we sum it all up, what are all those MS news?
- fixing party chat/streaming
- fixing controller
- price drop
- Titanfall bundle
- Titanfal, Titanfall, Titanfall and more Titanfall media.
Titanfall, fixes and a bunch of reactionary measures.
Where's news on Below? Minecraft XB1 Edition? Project Spark? Kinect Sports? D4? How about sharing details on games that are supposed to come after March?
Honestly, I think there's a lot of misperception that MS is somehow talking more good things than Sony just because Titanfall is the hot big news right now, but if you remove all the chaff... MS has really not talked about anything else at all for the past 2 months.
MS keeps talking because that's great PR and news for them, and they need every bit of it. Sales wise, things could be much better for XB1. They are going all out for Titanfall. They called up a small press conference with the Associated Press to announce their Twitch streaming app, for crying out loud.
MS has nothing to lose by announcing their entire slate for 2014/2015. The majority of MS studio's projects are already accounted for. There are still some games left to announce at E3 I'm sure, and if the insider guy is right we'll start getting Halo 2 Anniversary news before or right after Titanfall to keep the momentum going.
Sony has nothing to gain by announcing anything right now. PS4s are
still completely out of stock at all major online retailers. Most stores have not gotten a reliable shipment since December (that is, a large supply of systems). By announcing two new IPs/games tomorrow, they gain nothing.
Sony has a lot of new games in the works, much of which we don't know about. To think differently is to be incredibly ignorant of all the first party devs they have. All of them, as of last year or earlier, have switched over to PS4.
So think about E3 coming up. Think of the fact that by that time, Microsoft will know whether or not Titanfall has changed the XB1 sales forecast by a significant amount. They will be ready to announce literally every possible thing they have. They might even have a new SKU or price cut. MS is going to want to dominate the headlines for E3, in the same way Sony did with their $399/used games playable announcement.
Now lets go back to Sony. E3 is four months away. There are major unannounced games as well as games we yet to know anything about, like Uncharted. There is the potential for MS to go batshit crazy at E3 in the hopes of turning their sales around. Do you announce brand new games in March, when your system is already sold out and the major first/third party games start to roll out (Infamous, MGS5, Final Fantasy, MLB)? Or do you wait till June, when your supply of PS4s are finally normalized, need to be moved off shelves, and have a competitor that will try to dominate E3 at all costs?
There will not be any major announcements until E3 for Sony. Some people are gonna go crazy waiting that long. Hell, there are already plenty of crazy people in this thread. We just gotta deal with it.
