What do you mean by top here? A good fucking game, or a legit great game?
Because the latter? None of the first party devs have made a great game since The Last of Us (haven't played UC4 yet, calm down), otherwise Bloodborne was damn good, but that's a From Software joint, but if it counts then yeah definitely that. Good games? I dug me some Ratchet & Clank 2016 (technically insomniac is third party, but ratchet as a franchise isn't), for the WiiU I guess it's Splatoon for me, but I've heard good things about Pokken and Tokyo Mirrage Sessions, and in case of Microsoft yeah probably Halo 5.
But yeah the first party stuff this gen has been mediocre. Nintendo has underperformed by their standards and is creatively dull, but honestly Microsoft and Sony are exactly who they always were. As in their first party was never that fucking good to begin with. Microsoft doesn't have enough studios, doesn't have enough diversity in their portfolio, and their best studios are a racing dev, and two tribute bands to Bungie and Epic games. And Sony's first party teams make a lot of pretty games that don't actually play all that well.
It's not exactly a surprise that a shit load of the best games this gen are third party and multiplats. **** in the case of The PS4 and WiiU their best exclusives are from a third party studio.
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