It's not weird, it's like sports. You always profit from your opponent's mistakes. That's how Sony lost 80 million PS2 customers and Microsoft almost quadrupled it's Xbox customers. 2013 Microsoft made every mistake possible and already had lost the gen no later than 2014. XSX is also sold out and what are the next gen games Sony has? That PS3 game or that PS4 game expansion? Let's be honest both had much more games in 2013. This gen is a joke right now. Do you really think Horizon and GOW are coming this year? I press X for doubt. Not even sure if Microsoft delivers Halo in 2021.
On one post you say exclusives don't matter and on another ia the opposite. Make up your mind. I guess PC Gaming is totally irrelevant since it's perennially BC...
Look at this:
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PS5 atm has 40 games rated over 70 and yes in that list there's tons of 3rd parties and almost all of them are also on last gen consoles and PC. Since PS5 is full BC with PS4, it has an advantage PS4 didn't have and thus has inherited thousands of games from the previous gen and many are PlayStation exclusive and also play a lot better on PS5.
The new gen is young, it launched on tough times and we can barely catch a console at a retailer with extreme difficulty. I'd say the PS5 library in particular is immensely robust, no matter if the best games you can play on it are old PS4 games, they are still great games that I bet you and plenty other people can't possibly have gone through them all.
And they're better on the PS5. Significantly better. And this will go on, BC games like Horizon 2, we'll be all the better playing it on a PS5, just like a PC gamer is all the better playing games on a current top tier PC than a top tier PC from 2013 (PC has no games omg!, those PCs with 970s are playing the same stuff my 3080 is playing! Cancel the new GPUs inmediately!).
So again, make up your mind about the relevance and importance of "exclusive" games to you.
As a bonus: a look at the PS4 launch window:
2013: 20 games above 70 metascore. FLOWER at the top , that's a system seller no doubt. Plenty more indies in that top 20 too.
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2014 thru April: the best gamea were FEZ, Rayman Legends, Towerfall Ascension, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, Child of Light, Steamworld Dig. Star Wars Pinball, and INFAMOUS Second Son (these are all the games 80 or above). Then Trials Fusion, Don't Starve, Outlast, Strider, MGSV prologue aka Ground Zeroes, those round up the rest of games 70 or better through April 2014.
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Geez, I wonder what moved people to buy a PS4 back then lol. I know I was still comfortable playing Dark Souls 2 and many other great games on my PS3. I see a LOT more reason to buy a PS5 at launch or right now compared to the PS4 launch.