This gen is objectively worse for one reason, and one reason only:

[Risthel]

Shadow1980 said:

Risthel said:

Ahah, this. Nowadays it's only about boring fair play and false compliments from console manufacturers (except Nintendo, they are pretty arrogant towards competition) .

Sony used to do a lot of Sega-like commercials that were confrontational towards Nintendo back around 1996-ish.

Of course, those kind of started to fade once the PS1 became the clear market leader. We haven't really seen much of that since the turn of the century. The closest thing to a direct jab at the competition I've seen in recent memory was that humorous used game "PSA" that Sony made during E3 2013:

Yeah, I must admit that the E3 2013 video was a classy move, really funny!