yes it was

I know your argument is "if you get rid of Japanese stuff, PS4 and XBOne are basically the same".....but what was the "Japanese stuff" that released on PS4 this year?

Street Fighter V? Last Guardian? World of Final Fantasy? Are you really gonna bundle those in with random, obscure Japanese titles (which I know is what you mean by "Japanese stuff", like Odin Sphere Leifthrasir) just because the production company is Japanese? That'd be like saying Resident Evil or Metal Gear Solid is just "Japanese stuff" to be brushed to the side, despite those games having mass appeal.

If not, though, then with SFV, TLG, World of FF, Ratchet and Clank, UC4, MLB 16, Digimon Cyber Sleuth, and King of Fighters XIV, that's just shy of half of the "quality" amount of PS4 exclusives for 2016 and one more than the total number for XBOne. 

A handheld what?

Simply calling it a handheld doesn't make sense because the word handheld just describes something that you hold in your hand, it doesn't actually state what the product is.

The technical term would be handheld console or handheld gaming device. Handheld describes the form factor while console/gaming device states what the product is.

Last Guardian and WoFF, yes, obviously. SFV no, obviously not :)

More than a few of those games you listed aren't PS4 exclusives, and idk what list of Xbone exclusives you're referencing, but it's irrelevant anyway. I could list a quality Xbone alternative to almost all of those games, hence as I said, not missing out on much. You're free to disagree, I just don't consider Digimon or World of FF or MLB to be much of anything (and not PS4 exclusive either).

PS4 did have the best exclusives this year, but Wii U was an irrelevance, and Xbox doesn't even have true exclusives, only console ones, so it isn't exactly saying much

Next year should see a real battle between PS4 and Switch

 If you want to play around with the semantics, sure, but let's be real; these console wars really didn't take off on the internet until around the time the 7th gen was begining. Yeah, Sony boasted these metrics in the begining of the PS2 era, but they weren't used to the extent they are now until 360 released. 

A handheld you can plug into your TV versus a massively popular home console?  Apples and oranges...  I think Nintendo was done with head to head after Sega bowed out.  They have their niche and will continue to successfully exploit that.  

Just an FYI, I was referencing the total number of "quality exclusives" per the Metacritic article. It said PS4 had 17 and XBOne had 7, although it doesn't give a list of the games specifically, so I just went off the top of my head of the biggest PS4 exclusives of the year that weren't niche titles. 

I get your point, mine is that even with the natural inclination that top performers have to atract anything(shovelware included), the PS4 balances it much better than the Wii did. I think the Wii had that trait more pronounced than most winning consoles.

Anyway, like a lot of people said, bad games don't erase the good ones