Not sure how it's more true for Sony than it is for Microsoft that their first party was lacking the first year. I say they were both underwhelming. I'm not sure which XBO game you see and think "gee, I really need an XBO to play that game" either. Up until now they've both been in the same boat, of course that's looking to change now come this holiday, but I fail to see how MS' lineup is that great. You have Halo 5, which of course is huge, and the obvious XBO must have this fall, then you have the standard biannual release of Forza, and the timed exclusive, Rise of the Tomb Raider. That is substantially more than Sony though, where the only thing we know of by now is Until Dawn, if we stretch it, but again, just like with the case of the PS4 launch, this is more a case of Sony fucking up than MS doing insanely good.
In general though, exclusives don't matter much outside of internet forums (except for the Wii U, where it's basically all its got). Both the XBO and the PS4 are primarily pushed by third party software.
