>>714636358 (OP)>How do they do it?despite fucking up at every step (ps5 pro without disc drive, 12 concords, awful first party output) their main competitor pretty much gave up (it took them two generations but we finally got there) so now they have a monopoly in the home console market
half of the profit comes from the store/microtransactions, you don't really need a steady stream of exclusive if normies are more than happy to purchase cod skins
>inb4 sòytendothere's little to no overlap between the normies that like cod and latest UE5 games and normies that like mario kart and zelda
source: words of Shuhei Yoshida, that's how sony views nintendo internally and he was very open about during a podcast he made not long ago with people familiar with the nintendo side of things, the two audiences are simply too different and I have been saying this for years