Sony are not just relying on exclusives, they have all those games you mention too! The point I'm making is that the exclusives are what elevate their proposition above the competition. Does XB1 outsell PS4? No. But surely as MS are doing so much right and Sony not/doing so much wrong we'd start seeing a needle pointing that way. And as for using forums did you not read the poll results!? 70% say they are the best with 29% saying 'easily' the best.
PS4 has all the other games too, but so do all other platforms. In the end its the exclusives that set the platform apart. Most people are not buying those exclusives, they are playing CoD, FiFa, Fortnite, Apex, GTA etc.
What? did you even view the results of the poll so far? About 37% think they are better then other games, about 8% of those 37% thinks those exclusives just abit better. The remaining 65% thinks Sony's exclusives aren't better then other games. Reading the comments, that seems to go in line what people vote.
Comments like this are to be found, from user Ogbert:
To give Sony their due, they produce the sort of games that win awards.
Big budget, third person melodramas. They do it well and it garners praise.
I just don't think a single Sony game is a market leader in one critical discipline - gameplay.
Really? They coined the phrase 'Only on Xbox' - they didn't have any real exclusives at all...Halo, Forza, PGR, Forza, Fable, Ninja Gaiden, Panzer Dragoon, Shenmue 2 and more.
Compare the OG Xbox lirbary to the PS2's, its not even funny. That and many OG Xbox games made it to PC or vice-versa.
Yes, if the hardware launches a year later, is substantially more to buy, has inferior 3rd party games, lacks 'must buy' exclusives etc etc - it might only sell ~85 million.
So GoW PS3, GT, KillZone 2, LBP, The Uncharted games, InFamous, MGS4, Resistance Fall of man etc are lacking AAA exclusives? I might agree with you, but i don't think those titles are that much worse then what the PS4 currently has to offer. It shows on the other hand that AAA exclusives are not lifting a platform alone, there's more to it then releasing massive hyped exclusives i think. Sony's AAA's are great, but they cerntainly aren't the best in the industry, and they alone don't secure a platform war win either.
Never stop not giving up hope.
I'm with you, big hopes for Sony's PS5.