I generally agree with the other points you mentioned and it would seem we both agree that Apple could make a much more successful gaming system initiative nowadays given their brand power and resources, but I just wanted to quickly focus on the bolded, because it isn't quite accurate. The following is from Sony's own privacy policy statement:
"We may share non-Personal Information, such as aggregate user statistics, demographic information, and Usage Information with third parties for a variety of purposes, including tailoring Sony promotions, advertising and communications we present to you."
This means that they store stuff like:
Userid : 32421203
Country: France
Games acquired: (insert here list of games)
Most played game: (insert here way shorter list)
Hours played: 234
...
They won't store things like your name, your adress, they won't spy you via your mic and camera, etc. They simply will collect these annonimous statistics, both from your specific user or from the total aggregate, to make some statistics and learn from them: things like avoiding to show you an ad of a game you already have, if they have 5 candidate games to show you in an ad to choose the one is more similar to the type of games you own, etc.
I'm fine with that. They all do this, and I prefer to see ads of games tailored to my tastes even if I basically never buy them and I'm not interested on most of them.
There are a few other instances where Sony have had requests from agencies like the FBI to provide specific user data in particular criminal case investigations, but this is normal of any company is is equivalent to the cases in which companies like Microsoft provide such information: the agency in question (FBI, NSA etc.) have to have probable cause and a reason to request that user data in the first place.
I would also say that this tends to be the case with Apple and Google as well, though in Google's case it is a bit trickier because they have a known documented history of attempting to curry favor with governments like the CCP to get entry in certain foreign markets, necessitating methods of monitoring and data collection that could then have been ported out to service implementations for other markets/territories.
It's ok for me if they are in a criminal case, and the judge approves only the specific team (police, FBI, MI6, whatever is investigating it) them to access to stuff like cameras or mic during a specific time (during the investigation) of a specific person that they have important reasons to think is a criminal and is under their juristicton. I assume any tech company, ISP, etc allows that.
A different story is to create on purpose dozens of backdoors on their devices and give free lunch, full access to FBI, NSA and many agencies from many countries (I don't care if from USA, China, Russia, Europe, Israel or any other country including mine) to spy whatever they want from all the users they have around the world whenever they want, being under investigation or not, being on their jurisdiction or not. So random agents (or workers from the tech company) ended using it for personal reasons like to spy the former girlfriend, a celebrity, or even some of these agencies used it for mass surveilance and social control purposes spying 24/7 and storing all the info they had access to. Certain tech companies do this and I don't like it.
The mentioned stuff in this later paragraph was documented in different cases for Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and I don't remember but there were a few US company ones more. I remember a leaked document about this on wikileaks detailing the several dozens iOS and Android backdoors and spying methods they had implemented and was so fucking scary. I mean, even things like recording voices not using the mic, but the vibrations of the touchscreen instead and sci-fi shit like that. And to do it from different levels: accessing directly to the hardware, or getting stuff from the OS, or from the app, or capturing the internet data that it's send or received.
I mean like: are you texting someone using Telegram to have encrypted conversation? No problem, thanks to the OS we capture the conversation by capturing your screen and reading the conversation with an AI, or what you type using the points pressed on the touchscreen, or by capturing what it's typed on the virtual keyboard app or your phone, etc.