Yeah, the PS4 has nothing to compete with Ryse visually, but I'd argue it's just a rip-off of God of War, which will likely be coming to the PS4. More importantly, my point is that the ancient, gory action game already happened, this one's just shinier. That, and you can claim that the 360 was more powerful than the PS3, but it's easily argued that it was just easier to develop for.
You can sit there and ignore the numbers and be ignorant to the issue, just as you can claim that we're flippantly looking at numbers without noticing the rest of the stuff as well. If covering your ears and acting like you can't hear the obvious helps, go for it. The simple fact is that Microsoft built a console with inferior hardware. They then bottlenecked that inferior hardware with the Kinect's mandatory existence, as it eats up 10% of the GPU. Oh, then they refused to free up that GPU for Ghosts, which allegedly would have brought it on-par with the PS4, or close to it. They also elected to bundle the Kinect with the console, putting the inferior hardware at a $100 premium.
You can call it "keeping up with the Jonses," or whatever misinformed, antiquated term you care, but that's just ignoring the point. As much as I'd prefer an Xbox One over a PS4, it's just ignoring facts. The sophistication of the OS is irrelevant to the fact that Microsoft skimped on the GPU. The only part of the OS that matters, for this discussion, is that Microsoft let it and the Kinect waste 10% of the GPU, which is a big problem for developers (Infinity Ward allegedly could have gotten the One's version of Ghosts close to the PS4's, but Microsoft wouldn't let them use that extra GPU power).
I need to stop letting fanboys get me worked up, though. The more I engage you people in "discussion," the angrier I get at the sad job Microsoft did with the Xbox One's hardware, then it makes me rethink getting a One in the future all over again. By the way, the Xbox One can't play 1080p MGS while watching TV. It can't play 1080p MGS AT ALL. I don't even like MGS but you should have worded your sentence better, because it didn't help the Xbox One.