There is this foggy memory notion, mostly from younger people, that SONY had this big exclusive strength in their PS1 and PS2 generations like they had very active first party, part of the problem is they're counting all sorts of things like GTA III as "first party" in their foggy memories, yes, Grand Theft Auto had an association with PS back then for people. The erosion of the brand happened prior to the PS3 even launching, tbh, when you couldn't name many franchises associated with SONY that were still exclusive to them. The good news was PS3 introduced actual first party franchises in the second half of its life to eventually overcome the XBOX 360.
I do think people are secretly acknowledging the importance of timed and third party exclusives, though, via this thread, like how 2024 was special for PS5 via games like Stellar Blade, FF7R and Wukong among others, for some reason this is DIFFERENT to some very dishonest people from the success of the SONY of old.