The gaming media is giving Sony the free pass. The general media has been evenly favorable with both consoles.

I'm not saying that won't happen, as I'm pretty positive there will be some kind of policy to deal with the second hand games issue (less anti-consumer than with MS) but it's also far-fetched to say that Sony will have almost the same kind of DRM as MS because of EA support. 

Maybe Nintendo said no to that and that's the reason why EA ditched its support, but EA's revenue is substantially bigger on Playstation platforms than Nintendo's, and I mean SUBSTANTIALLY. So it's possible that even if Sony would say no, EA would still have to support them.

Also note that before the xbone reveal, EA was definately closer in relationships with Sony than MS - Battlefield earlier DLCs, Playstation specific FIFA and NFS commercials. And now after MS adopted all this DRM, always online, etc. etc. stuff EA is their biggest partner.

The truth is that Wii U is not viable for them right now. That does NOT translate as they will no longer support them. And they have supported the system. And stopped because of sales. Completely different than saying EA wouldn't support the Ps4 if it didn't block used games

You are right - there is a lot we still dont know including sony's policy on used games. But going from what they have done with the ps3, any features they have with the ps4 will not be forced or compulsory i.e. if the camera/eye is kinect-like I am sure they will give the option of turning it off and wont force it into most games (or at least make it optional similar to the move functionality). When you look at these things, you go on past behaviour and what sony have done in the past means I am not too worried about what features they will have in the ps4.

In a nut shell, this.

We're getting green flags from SONY, red flags from MS. When SONY gives a reason for people to moan and complain, you'll see some moaning and complaining. Everyone's focused on what we know to be happening so far, not what might happen. 

Uhhh....

Edit: ah, i see. You're still laboring under the "rational company" concept.

Retracted.

Its simply the fact that whatever Sony has shown so far has been mostly positive and people are focusing on that. On the other hand MS's conference and post show contained mostly negative stuff.

It is possible that Sony has been stacking all the negative stuff for later but there's no reason for people to think negatively of a system if nothing bad has been shown. If Sony do unveil some bad stuff, they will get backlash for it. I think they know this as well seeing the craziness that ensued after MS's conference.

That right there is my concern

But I suppose this is quite true

^ This. Sony needs to be careful on how they treat 3rd parties. If they lose their support the Sony 1st party games won't be enough to push hardware. We know EA wants this fee for used games, we still need to see if other 3rd parties will follow suit. If the majority of big third party publishers want this pay-walls, Sony has no other option but to meet their demands. 

Well, if Sony handles stuff with the used games and the restrictions better, I think MS could loose a lot of cutomers (including me).
But as you say, right now it's very much unclear how Sony will handle this, so the best we can do is wait and stay calm...