It's no Sony 2013, but it's not the worst either, at least from my pov. What we're seeing now is talks of tech specs and talks to and for devs, rather than games, consumer stuff etc. I feel like half the gamers are seeing these dev talks as boring (which they will, because a large swath will not understand how it works, let alone what it is), which is fine, but they'll have to wait for the PR marketing and actual demos being shown off closer to the system's eventual launch.
That said, I do also feel like this is what would happen, when MS doesn't fuck up. See this gen, MS royally fucked themselves right out the gate, and in turn that handed Sony bragging rights, a large, insane chunk of mind-share, dev support all around and general cheers/praise, while MS pulled their pants down and shat on the bed. Now we're seeing an MS near the very tail end of the gen, pulling a Sony from last gen, where they pick themselves up and start to do something about their own predicament, and I think it could very well pay off for them next gen, assuming they don't pull anti-consumer bs (the very last thing you want to do, is pull that sort of crap on consumers).
All we need now is Nintendo to pull out a refresh system from the chest, and we'll be getting some good levels of competition going once more (because atm, I'm really starting to see Switch as just another Wii again, instead of it being more than it could have been).
End of the day though, Sony still has a big chunk of mind-share to roll with, so I doubt they'll trip hard right out the gate, or suffer much.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
