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Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.
They voted for a handful of them, and then violently voted against the next thousand.
Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy
But they don't have any false expectations of making hundreds of millions of dollars, betting everything they have that it will.