Ah, the "persecution complex" angle, used by fanboys to revise history and deny events that happened.
Sony has had much longer since it first showcased UE5 and have showed NO GAMES yet, but no criticism there. This is the first showing of UE5 on Series X and already everyone criticizing and expecting an actual game when the damn thing became available just recently.
You're conflating so many different events into one, imagining the internet as one big voice that's speaking all in unison for or against a topic, and that's silly.
Sure, there were Sony fans who were claiming the first UE5 demo as proof of their consoles strength that MS didn't answer back at (which is lame on their part since UE5 is always meant to play on this generation of consoles and it wasn't "secret sauce" in the SSD or anything else that brought that demo to life.) Those are those people, and they've got something wrong with their sense of understanding. There's no reason to obsess over UE5 as a battleground of these two consoles. They will both play UE5 games (and so will Switch and your phone, albeit at greatly reduced specs and with no Lumen or Nanite,) and there's nothing that's been said about work with Unreal Engine on either console that says they run the engine any better or worse than the other (albeit PS was the only console to have shown it for that first year, but Xbox was shown in May and then today and tomorrow will be a kind of milestone in Xbox history of having a UE5 demo showcased on its hardware and having all of that bullshit fully put to rest.)
And nobody asked for teaser images. GDC info barely ever escapes the confines of the Moscone Center in the first place. It's a developer's show. But Epic and The Coalition and Microsoft put that out there, and they're putting Alpha Point to the public tomorrow. They invited hype, and with that, they invited scrutiny.
The situation is very simple IMO. Response to the tweets about Alpha Point being less impressive than hoped should be overtly obvious to anybody who looks at that screenshot, and should trigger zero discussions that fire a shot in the console wars. So far, it's rocks. We saw some rocks in May of 2020, we saw some more rocks in May of 2021. We're ready for a big studio to show something that isn't rocks. If Alpha Point goes beyond what was in that tweet image, that will be exciting because that'll be something we haven't seen before, be it on Xbox or any other platform. What they teased the public with, what was picked up by GAF and by news sites as a tease of something to tune in for, what Microsoft prefaced by saying, "With sights on the future, The Coalition and Epic Games are working to set a new standard of technical excellence for next-gen gaming," (albeit generally about the technological work at both companies, not specifically that Alpha Point was a slice of that new standard,) what we have talked about on this forum for 165 posts now, was rocks. I like rocks. I like Unreal Engine rocks. I would like to see something soon from a talented studio like The Coalition that is not rocks. If that's not Alpha Point, then I look forward to the next event that does.
I don't even mean to be bickering about this, if you actually read any of my posts you'll see way more nuance about the situation than, "Meh, rocks", and I am excited to check out Alpha Point tomorrow. But here is 2020's rocks and here is tomorrow's rocks. It is what it is, but don't you wish you were seeing something other than rocks?