To me it looks like they sell the console to then try to catch you with the Software as a service. Like PS Plus. But for me this is useless because I do not play every week, sometimes I stop playing for weeks.

That being said, I think Sony did good putting some exclusives on Steam. I remember I bought Horizon Zero Dawn and Deathstranding. I even got a dualsense for DS.

And, yes, I also have a PS5 but never got a single game that requires PS Plus to play online. And the main reason I pick PS5 over PC sometimes is that PS5 is in the living room and I have sometimes time to play after 22:00.

I don’t know how much money they make selling hardware but they could just sell games overpriced for PC (to compensate for what they didn’t earn selling hardware and store fees) and people will just buy.