Look it's really easy PlayStation wanted a walled in system! MS said ok I'm fine with that and took all the "MS had no games comments even to the point of joking about it." MS in the mean time said we'll build our wall around PlayStation and include everything but, PlayStation. MS's wall just took longer to build. See instead of extending PS's wall Sony kept buying exclusive contacts to push MS out of the game (like it had it the past gen's). MS secretly and openly kept building it's infrastructure, UI, redesigned XBL and added PC as a single userbase. Refined it's hardware/controllers and created Gamepass. See when Gamepass was revealed MS was done with it's changes to it's setup. Cloud gaming was almost ready and MS was ready to go on the offense. MS even told you this gen would be it's comeback not the Xbox One''s (gen). Bethesda was pushed forward to stop Sony's approach to exclusive contracts to start the end of this continued cycle. That purchase did two things to the gaming industry 1) it announced MS was back 2) MS wouldn't be denied in the gaming industry any longer. See all during that time Sony didn't learn while it sat proudly at #1. What they didn't learn is you never sit proudly while at #1 Kaz (father of Playstation) even told you that!
-All consoles are and had been walled gardens
-Both MS and Sony had 2nd and 3rd party exclusives since their first generation
-XCloud is MS's version of PS Now, which was released before, performs better and has a bigger catalog
-At least until now Gamepass doesn't have more subscribers or generate more money than Sony's subscriptions.
-Zenimax game sales on PlayStation are less than 3% than the total PS4 game sales
-Sony continues releasing more exclusives than MS every year and Jimbo said they plan to have more exclusives for PS5 than they ever had in their previous consoles
-Half of the years of the last decade had a PS exclusive as the game that won more GOTY awards that year vs 0 MS exclusives. 10 PS exclusive games more were between the top 5/top 6 games of that year with more GOTYs
-PS exclusives not only win more GOTY awards than with Kaz, they also sell more than ever
-MS continues being the distant 3rd on generating money, selling consoles and selling games
-Sony continues being the console platform holder that generates more money, has the fastest selling console ever (breaking the gaming history record of their previous console), continues being the console platform holder that makes more money with game subscriptions and the one that sells more games for their consoles
-PlayStation makes more revenue, sell more consoles, sell more games, their exclusives get better MC, win more GOTY awards and sell more and gets more money from subs with Jimbo than with Kaz
-Plus Kaz released 2 Knack games and Jimbo restructured Japan Studio to make sure they don't make more Knacks and focus instead on developing games like Astro and publishing 2nd party games like Death Stranding or Bloodborne.
Some of you are really detached or something.
Xbox has exclusives but you can play them on other devices other than the Sony consoles and Nintendo.
Sony has exclusives, fuck you buy a PS5 or PS4.
How in the hell is MS worst? Explain to me, as a pc gamer only, how MS is worse than Sony. Actually now is a good time to remind every Sony fan, that they have a powerful pc to play ALL the games launched by MS, at least that is my perception when i read a thread about a MS exclusive. I meant "exclusive", sorry about that.
PS has more exclusives, that get higher reviews/MC, better sales and earn more GOTY awards than the Xbox ones.
Even if it doesn't feature day one the 1st party published games, in console and PC performs better than xcloud, it has a way bigger catalog and is coming soon to smartphones and tablets (in the past it was limited to Vita and a few Sony phones), so soonish you'll be able to play it anywhere too.