The meltdowns and damage control in 2013 and early 2014 were amazing to behold. Gies and others were trashing the PS4 at every chance, while trying to sell their readers the XBox One. Eurogamer was frequently posting articles praising the XBox One "balanced design" versus the PS4 only being "superior on paper", not to mention the angry editorials throwing tantrums over PS4 sales. Never before, or since, has blatant control over the press, or just plain fanboyism among "journalists", been more evident.
Well, sure, and the outlets that used selective specs sheets to say both consoles were "equal" in therms of performance, and that MS had a vague ecosystem advantage, and oh yeah that controller that you need a video explaining how to use it.
It helped the XBox quite a lot as well, I met people who still believed they bought an equal console years later!
Eurogamer are still at it in their DF analysis, until recently they could barely tell the difference between 900p and 1080p (PS4 v.s. XB1), but could spot the difference between 1440p/1800p "chekerboarded to 4k" (faux K if you will) to native 4k from a mile away! (PRO v.s. X)... I mean, 900p games on the PS4 always looked blurrier than native 1080p games, no need to pay much attention to it, those games that use the checkerboard techniques to upscale to 4k still look pretty neat, even from 1440p, at least it does not annoy me nearly as much as sub 1080p games on a 1080p screen bothered me, you really need to squint to see those scaling artifacts on a 4k tv/monitor.
As I said to a friend back then, the PS4 is better, and it will show, but it's not so much more powerful that one day a game will be made for the PS4 that cannot exist on the xbox with a resolution, and/or other graphics details, sacrifice. I stand by this statement, this is also why I think that if we have the opposite power differential this gen, even with an equivalent ratio, it won't madder that much, I mean, with 30X more GPU power you may get better SSAO, slightly improved AA, maybe a bit more draw distance too? it will be harder to care, even for the hardcore.