That is the thing, Sony is already at least on par (and likely ahead) with Microsoft from a games perspective right now but haven't even flexed their first party muscle yet.
Today they announced firmware 2.0 and 9 games in an hour presentation, and didn't even break out the big first party studios.
Announced these games:
The Tomorow Children (Q Games. PS4)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts. PS4, PC)
Volume (Mike Bithell Games. PS4, Vita, PC, Mac)
Hollowpoint (Paradox Interactive. PS4, PC)
Hellblade (Ninja Theory. Only announced for PS4, presumably we'll see Xbox One later)
P.T. (7780s Studio. PS4)
Tearaway Unfolded (Media Molecule. PS4)
Alienation (House Marquee. PS4)
Wild (Wild Sheep Studios. PS4)
Which was a good but not great list but then you dig deeper and we haven't seen any thing from these studios yet:
Japan Studio
Guerilla Games
Guerilla Cambridge
Media Molecule (Tearaway technically but that is a port)
Santa Monica
Polyphony Digital
Studio London
Bend
Quantic Dream
Plus they didn't focus on games they already had shown at E3 and their biggest first party developer (Naughty Dog) has only shown a brief clip of a game coming in 2015.
Sony is winning the battle right now with just their strong 3rd party/indie relationships, which is huge since it will allow them to be patient with their first party games.
Microsoft had a good day today with some of their announcements and some neat firmware updates, but in the end Sony still didn't allow them to catch up due to great announcements of their own.
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