Sony’s media group has been an absolute cancer to the device group. To this day they make some of the best hardware on the market. To this day I won’t buy any of it beyond the PlayStation because of how horribly they screw it up with DRM and associated restrictions.
How does it not help much? I’ve probably got a total of less than $2k invested into PlayStations and games in my entire life. If I were to add up all the electronic devices I’ve purchased in my entire life that could have been Sony but weren’t it would probably be pushing 6 figures.
If you want to screw Sony, there's no better way to do it than to buy a Playstation and use it only as a dumb media player. They make money licensing games, not selling the console itself.