I hate when people make comments that assume no one will call them out on obvious BS.

I was part of Nintendo's dev program in the Wii days, grand cost was 0 dollars a year. NOA lent us dev kits worth thousands of dollars and we had direct forum access to software developers working for Nintendo.

Sony and Microsoft will do similar.

You're talking about arrangements where Sony is acting at least in-part as a publisher, not indie titles going up on their shop as is comparable.