Everyone is obsessing over this idea that Microsoft is going to 'money hat' developers to release, potentially, downgraded versions of their multiplat releases to make it look like there is no real power advantage on the PS4. As far as I'm aware, this idea came as a theory or an imagined scenario from an article on EDGE as what could happen and it seems to have grown arms, legs and teeth with people making promises of boycotting releases. It just seems like one hell of a reaction to nothing whatsoever.
Considering in the current gen, multiplat games currently show various performance differences between the platforms that it would seem strange for these developers to suddenly start undercooking their games at an attempt to keep in Microsoft's good books. Microsoft may have deep pockets, but not enough to buy off every multiplat developer out there.
Has anyone here even considered that DICE's meaning of the word 'parity' simply means ensuring that the XOne version will be at least on par with the PS4 version - assuming that the PS4 version is running smoother than the XOne version, rather than assuming they will release an inferior PS4 version to match the underdeveloped Xone version? This is all making the assumption that there is going to be a huge gulf in performance between the two versions anyway.
Or, how about their meaning of the word 'parity' mean running at same FPS and resolution only, but the PS4 may have better textures compared to the XOne. Yes, I'm oversimplifying things, but hopefully people get my point.
The fact of the matter is, there is so much cloak and dagger shit going on just now that everyone is running mostly on rumours, whispers and probably bias. Until the day of release for both platforms and games come and go or the Press get some unrestricted access to all these games and their developers and give us some unbiased reports, we are never really going to know how well the two versions will actually play.