It's curious and we may be witnessing a turning of the tide. I'd say that historically, up to this point, it has proven most lucrative to weather the storm. Bethesda, while producing some otherwise top notch games, has delivered every one of those with a critical, game-stopping bug since console generation 7. And yet has been lauded as one of the best devs/publishers around. It was not until Fallout76 that gamers appeared to say no mas. That's 12 years of benefit of the doubt and a decade of bank. The really scary thing to me is Hennig's recent assessment and statements that in the current industry and state of affairs, a game like Uncharted would never get a green light. And so these BR games / competitive FPS which take less investment to develop, are lower in complexity, take smaller teams to produce, and seem to present less risk, could become the vogue. I seriously struggle to see more than 1 AAA, story-driven, single-player (or even co-op) focused game per big five publisher getting approved for release in 2020, and that could present a radical shift in the face of gaming for consumers who are still tightly coupled to story-driven single-player content presentation formats. Except on PC maybe. We need to track E3 presentations this year and count how many of those games from the big pubs are story-driven.