Lets do some history here. 1st of all Sony is not the reason the gaming industry is healthier, its actually Nintendo, and most of its fans left to go to Playstation and Xbox. The most healthiest years of gaming is when Nintendo is on top just like last generation with every console selling well and Nintendo dominated top spot without a struggle, 7th gen is classed as one of the most successfull gaming genreations when you want to look at console and software sales. What Xbox did to PS is what PS did to Nintendo. Without Nintendo the industry falls even Sony admitted long ago saying they need Nintendo to strive. Nintendo bring in the none gamers which leads to a bigger industry.

http://mynintendonews.com/2013/11/13/sony-we-need-nintendo-to-be-very-successful/

When it comes to game quality PS is far from the top, Sony opened the flood gates for all devs to make games, lowering the standard for qulaity games where Nintendo did the oppsite. Lets go compare how many bad N64 games there were to PS1 games and my point is proven. Same with the PS2 and Gamecube. Nintendo house the best reviewed exclusives and have brought this industry back on its feet single handedly.

JRPGs are not everything and if you havent notice the PC industry house the biggest JRPG range of games, not PS.

You love PS i can clearly see this but your opinions are really mislead to what you like then what actually is fact.

The situation is not as bad for Xbox One as it was for the PS3. MS has parity clause to protect itself, while early gen PS3 games often got sold weeks, months or even a year after the 360 version released.

Im bookmarking this post to answer it later, too lazy right now for long replys. 

• "Lets do some history here"

Only permitted to release five games per year – with those games being exclusive to the NES for a further two years – and severely restricted by stringent censorship policies, even a good game struggled to make money for the software companies. Through fair means and foul, game developers set aside almost as much time and effort for reverse engineering the aggravating security system as they did to creating new NES titles.

Nintendo’s retaliation was swift and characteristically severe, immediately targeting any insurgents with its deadly legal machine in an attempt to retain its once justified grip on the home console market."

http://www.gamestm.co.uk/uncategorised/nintendont-the-darker-side-of-nintendos-history/2/

 Wow! Cant wait for Nintendo to rule the market again!

• "1st of all Sony is not the reason the gaming industry is healthier, its actually Nintendo, and most of its fans left to go to Playstation and Xbox"

All of them published by Nintendo. It is because of Nintendo that developers like Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, Warner Bros, and the rest of the AAA developers/publishers are making money right now right?

So healthy!!!

• "The most healthiest years of gaming is when Nintendo is on top just like last generation with every console selling well and Nintendo dominated top spot without a struggle, 7th gen is classed as one of the most successfull gaming genreations when you want to look at console and software sales."

some of them did but some of them didnt and you have no evidence whatsoever that those defending it bought the game and sales of the game isnt in your favor.  If 500k plus digital (doubt it makes that much difference) is good to you for a franchise like tomb raider then you really had low expectations and please dont bring up legs because unless the game is massively bundle, it is not going to be great because xb1 isnt a WW console like ps4.

Umm maybe because TR never sells well? Even on PS the franchise sells extremly low for its quality. As for some buy it and some dont, your belief is no different to mine and are only assuming those that debate using TR dont own the game based off its sales.

So lets talk about it. The reason Nintendo started going down hill was due to PS, if PS wasnt around the N64 and Gamecube would have sold more same with Sega. Sony were also the ones that put Sega out of buisness. 3rd party companies exist because of PC not becasue of Sony. And they would have continued to exist due to Sega and PC. Your taking credit away from previous companies. Sure PS sells well but thats due to the lack of competition. Sony are in it for themselves and they will do the same with XBox. There PS1 and PS2 sales is what happens when you steal 2 fanbases away just like the WiiU and XB1 now.

Before Sony, there was a healthy gaming industry with the NES and SNES and Gameboys and Sega's Megadrives and Master System. All Sony did was take away Segas fanbase and most of NIntendos and took the sales ride. 

Also your metacritic example is a very poor example and is off topic as it does not show who has had the most bad games orginially stated by me. Sony would always win that catagory since it has more games (not rocket science) and most of them werent made by Sony, There library solely relied on 3rd party. Nintendo will have far less games and far lesser bad games. my PS1 had over 50+ games and only 7 of them i played and the rest were pretty bad. Where as my N64 just about half the games i played on it were decent if not great. Some of the greatest games of all time were not on the PS1 or PS2 but actually Nintendo.

The biggest problem with your info is your only going by the numbers and not the reasons. Also you claim Nintendo is shrinking yet it was only 1 generation ago they destroyed the competition and now they still own a monopoly in the handheld department and just to prove my point before, WiiU isnt selling aswell as the Wii, well guess where most of those gamers went this genretion? Thats right the PS4. Sony is not extending the competition its just taking away and from others. They have been doing it from the very beginning.

or maybe because the reboot sold at least 2m on xb360 and ps3 each and the ps4 version sold at least 1m as a remaster and please dont bring up install base because there are a lot of games that sell better with less install base compare to their succesor.  as for the second, in the same way people add games in their 2016 list war without any confirmed date just to make a list look better than it already is, the same way some gamers add games to a list just to say my list is better than yours even if they arent interested in such genre.  it is a common thing to see between both fanbases. 

Really dude? Your going to ignore the main reason the game sold more just for your argument? a game sells 2m on a console with 80m compare to a game sitting on over 500k on a console that sold 18m. Do the maths, the attach rate on the 360 and PS3 is shocking compared. TR does not sell well period.

of course not but having bigger userbase doesnt guarantee having bigger sales.  uncharted 3 sold basically the same as uncharted 2 even with bigger userbase, same happened with multiple game, heck halo 5 is gonna have a hard time selling as good as halo 2 even when it is almost guarantee xb1 is gonna outsell the first xbox.  in other words, TR reboot might have sold the same even with less jnstallbase if the fanbase for the game is on that platform.  also good job ignoring how well the game sold on ps4, perhaps the fanbase is on ps4