FROM is a a great game company, but also a perfect example of what this post is talking about. Their code is REALLY bad. There was a cross game RCE they had to shut down all their servers for recently, the games are riddled with bugs, and the actual code structure itself (from reverse engineering) is spaghetti.

Games, and especially console games targeting immutable hardware, are a different world. On a console you control the environment 100% and it simply doesn't matter what you do behind the scenes as long if it works.

Great video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHZKYETDyU) showing the dev process for nintendo. Looks like a collaborative environment to me?

Seriously? PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch remain top of the class for console hardware, and Square Enix, Bandai Namco etc are still huge names in games.

I wouldn't consider Nintendo a failure, rather they do things their own way. While Sony and MSFT both compete on the latest and greatest hardware to run AAA games, Nintendo is instead providing an entirely different gaming experience. Typical games reach success by making graphics better, framerates higher, and pushing the boundaries of what the system can do, Nintendo seems to have taken the approach instead of making modest hardware with software that is very tailored to that hardware.

The best example of this is Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Technically the game is not that impressive compared so some of it's RPG peers, but that's not the point. While no detail is by itself that impressive, the whole package is fantastic.

That's a bit like saying:

America still to this day fails at smart phones (see Apple)