Development costs skyrocket, but almost all gaming companies in the past few years have been doing quite well for themselves. The 90s were a brutal time to be a game dev, with probably over half of games studios ending up closed. 2000s, early 2010s weren't much better with some massive closures like THQ.

Basically what I am saying, since game servers have been a major part of games, most game companies have profited.

Sony and Nintendo (MS we don't have the clarity of data) have been racking immense profits on the SW and royalties (on Sony case much more than the combined 3 gens prior), and the PSN profit is even bigger. They are really making money of charging ludicrous amount for a penny cost that should already be covered by the money charged on the games since well you need to play the game you buy. I'm even surprised that silly procon in Brazil have sued Sony and MS against locking part of the content on a second charge for the online feature (and they are sueing apple over the charger on iphone).

Procon is a governamental agency in Brazil that stands for consumer rights upholding the consumer rights law in the country. So they are sueing Apple for breaking these rights when selling without the charger because it is needed for the phone to work. Similarly selling the game with multiplayer and charging for the online is quite close (even worse as in the case of online you need to keep paying). And silly because it is a silly agency that isn't that much effective most of the time (and the sueing is also silly since well the customer feedback is quite accepting of the ridiculous Apple's strategy).

You don't read gaming industry financial reports very often, do you? 

• DLC and microtransactions (game prices have absolutely gone up)
• Digital storefronts that are killing the secondhand market, saving publishers a ton on the costs of getting games in stores, allowing publishers to define their own sales, and giving games a place to always be available so long as the digital storefront remains available
• Modern computing architectures that allow porting between different platforms to be easier than ever
• The embrace of indy games by all major platform providers, along with the revival of the mid-tier market thanks to digital storefronts

This idea that profiting from game development is getting harder is nothing but a flimsy justification by major publishers for raising the prices of their games.

That's what I see every time a big major complaining about gaming production costs:

Just think how much more popular is gaming now. This community being biased towards console gaming is preventing them to see how much bigger PC and Mobile Gaming has become. Console manufacturers like Sony and Nintendo may be underusing those markets, buy big major studios are undoubtedly spreading their activities towards multiplatforms that includes mobile and PCs

To say devs are making less money now is just ludicrous. But I'm used to see gaming makers spreading pathetic narratives and this community just buys it blindly. I personally never saw a movie director, neither a singer complaining about people buying second hand DVD, CDs or BDs, I surely do see a lot of devs complaints about buying second hand games 

Nintendo is Nintendo, don't like them don't buy them.  Only way to change a company is by voting with your wallet.  Complaining online, when a corporation is making billions, does absolutely nothing.  

You are already paying for the service when you buy the console and then when you buy the game. You may be fine with paying for online, but I`ll hold it is greedy.

I also completely understand Sony justification for rasing the price for PS5 with inflation and increased development cost, plus customers accepting it, but it is still greedy.

How can you say Nintendo needs to charge for online to keep the costs of the server when we just had someone saying he paid over 200 USD to have Smash plus all DLCs. That is obscenelly high (with DLC costing pennies to make compared with their price), and won`t even enter the area of keeping the full price for a whole gen.

You paid 3 times for the game to have content that isn`t really 3 games worthy of it. Or do you think from the base game to the additional chars and extras it costed them twice over the base cost?

So you are paying 5USD per char on the DLC and their related content... on the base game you paid 60 USD for like 60 char or 1 per char and the base game/gameplay/etc. So you are paying at least 5x over. That will show you that as usual DLC is a greedy mechanism. You`ll be fine with it and think it is acceptable to your or have value and that doesn`t really change it. Your defense of it is just like all other players used to defend in the past and were criticized by Nintendo fanbase.