You may not care, but the fact is that if sales of Sony 1st party is a lot higher and the quality as well then hardly you can say that they increased their reliance on 3rd party. But let's the numbers do the talking.

PS4 exclusives scores by metacritic                                                 PS3

95+ - 1                                                                                         3

90-94 - 9 (2 by 3rd parties, with one now being multiplat)                 10 (1 by 3rd party)

85-89 - 12 (6 by 3rd parties)                                                           16 (2 by 3rd party)

80-84 - 12 (5 by 3rd parties)                                                            18 (3 by 3rd party and one prologue)

Considering we still have at least 18 months with know Death Stranding, TLOU 2, Dreams and GoT to be released the comparison doesn't seem as bad as you paint on the quantity of quality titles on both system, plus there will be an online game made by ND in place of the MP for TLOU2. And since you agreed on the critical acclaim I don't need to reinforce that. Now let's see best sellers.

PS4 Sony published by VGC (yes PS4 will be damaged due to digital not tracked)            PS3

10M+  -  1                                                                                                                  1                                                                                                     

5-9,99 -  5                                                                                                                  4

1-4,99 - 20                                                                                                                 28

Total   83,33                                                                                                              105,65

Considering lack of the traking for digital and the games that will release Sony will have sold more SW on PS4, also will have more games selling over 5M and over 10M than PS3.

So all of that shows that Sony have depended less, made better quality titles, gained more acclaim and sold more than PS3. Basically none of your points really stands, unless of course you want to only count the total quantity of titles released independent of quality or sales (besides that the total of titles amount that meets sales or critic isn't that much different, and if we were on both critics and sales PS4 would be wining).

I'll give you Horizon Zero Dawn, because I forgot about that.  And you can count Until Dawn too.  Can't count most of the others.

Death Stranding is not out yet.  Those other games are either not particularly great or are sequels.  The Last Guardian and Spider-Man are sequels.  Nioh is a Dark Souls clone.  Perhaps the main "original" games this generation are the ones that copy Dark Souls.

Boy, it's really hard to think of good original PS4 games, isn't it?

Sales of Sony first party games SHOULD be higher. There are less first party games for consumers to choose from and what, 20 million more consoles for people to buy games for? What exactly do sales have to do with anything I posted, anyway? I said Sony is releasing less games this gen and relying more on third party. These are facts. I don't care what their software sells, I don't care what the metascore is.

Yes sure, the sales and quality of Microsoft games have skyrocketed from they making less games right?

So you just want to sprout BS using a generic quantity of games, great to know. so I don't think I need to reply back anything else you say in response.

Your metacritic list is irrelevant, but lets analyze it anyway.

You say there's one PS4 exclusive with a 95+ score. It's a port of a PS3 game. That's a point for my argument.
You say there are nine PS4 exclusives with a score between 90 and 94. There are actually seven, which is fine. But of the seven, you have:

Uncharted sequel (franchise started on PS3)
God of War sequel
Two PS3 ports
One PS2 port
Amazing VR game
Souls clone developed by outside company

I said Sony is relying on less games and being less creative, you aren't exactly making a strong case here by showcasing these metascores. I don't think I even need to analyze the rest of that list, and I'm going to completely ignore the sales stuff because it's completely irrelevant.

A brilliant analysis made just to dismiss what you don't like or agree, congratulations. 

Again, considering context and logic, Sony should sell a lot of software on PS4. AFAIK it's over 100 million sold. I don't even know what that last part is trying to say.

When a company is selling more of their own SW, total and having more high sellers, you can't claim they are relying more on third parties at all.

Yikes. Is this one of those shitposts you're referencing? That's a bad take. PS2 and PS3 had way more incredible exclusives.

Yeah. I have a bad take. When one is comparing/contrasting PS systems, one is essentially comparing/contrasting different levels of excellence. It's fair to have a wildly unpopular opinion such as yours. Like the opinion that PS has "dropped the ball in the games department mightily." Yeah. That's a talking point that's difficult to avoid. Not that the PS4 might be perhaps, off the pace of it's predecessors in terms of the raw number of games, but that they've "dropped the ball in the games department mightily" A widely discussed issue to be sure, and not at all one that most would consider hyperbolic nonsense.....

And then we have this: "Tbh idk how any fan of Sony the last two couple gens can be happy with their game output this gen, it’s been barren" The temerity to go that route....As if the general praise and success of the PS4 is due to to....Primarily what? Indoctrination and brand bias? We're talking 6 years of software and hardware output, spanning multiple games, most of which have been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The jury IS IN, and it has been for quite some time. The planet Earth has spoken. The success and consumer satisfaction of the PS4 is indisputable. But yet no matter how much you furrow your brow and concentrate, you just can't understand how a majority of players of all types could possibly satiated, in spite of a universally lauded PS4 1st party lineup.

So you just want to sprout BS using a generic quantity of games, great to know. so I don't think I need to reply back anything else you say in response.

A brilliant analysis made just to dismiss what you don't like or agree, congratulations. 

When a company is selling more of their own SW, total and having more high sellers, you can't claim they are relying more on third parties at all.

Yeah. I have a bad take. When one is comparing/contrasting PS systems, one is essentially comparing/contrasting different levels of excellence. It's fair to have a wildly unpopular opinion such as yours. Like the opinion that PS has "dropped the ball in the games department mightily." Yeah. That's a talking point that's difficult to avoid. Not that the PS4 might be perhaps, off the pace of it's predecessors in terms of the raw number of games, but that they've "dropped the ball in the games department mightily" A widely discussed issue to be sure, and not at all one that most would consider hyperbolic nonsense.....

And then we have this: "Tbh idk how any fan of Sony the last two couple gens can be happy with their game output this gen, it’s been barren" The temerity to go that route....As if the general praise and success of the PS4 is due to to....Primarily what? Indoctrination and brand bias? We're talking 6 years of software and hardware output, spanning multiple games, most of which have been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The jury IS IN, and it has been for quite some time. The planet Earth has spoken. The success and consumer satisfaction of the PS4 is indisputable. But yet no matter how much you furrow your brow and concentrate, you just can't understand how a majority of players of all types could possibly satiated, in spite of a universally lauded PS4 1st party lineup.

Yeah. I have a bad take. When one is comparing/contrasting PS systems, one is essentially comparing/contrasting different levels of excellence. It's fair to have a wildly unpopular opinion such as yours. Like the opinion that PS has "dropped the ball in the games department mightily." Yeah. That's a talking point that's difficult to avoid. Not that the PS4 might be perhaps, off the pace of it's predecessors in terms of the raw number of games, but that they've "dropped the ball in the games department mightily" A widely discussed issue to be sure, and not at all one that most would consider hyperbolic nonsense.....

And then we have this: "Tbh idk how any fan of Sony the last two couple gens can be happy with their game output this gen, it’s been barren" The temerity to go that route....As if the general praise and success of the PS4 is due to to....Primarily what? Indoctrination and brand bias? We're talking 6 years of software and hardware output, spanning multiple games, most of which have been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The jury IS IN, and it has been for quite some time. The planet Earth has spoken. The success and consumer satisfaction of the PS4 is indisputable. But yet no matter how much you furrow your brow and concentrate, you just can't understand how a majority of players of all types could possibly satiated, in spite of a universally lauded PS4 1st party lineup.