Spolier: Do not put 'listening to leftists' as your answer, too easy.
With the paracite hangers on of game 'journalists' the first to go, the amount of bleakness from Ubisoft, EA trying to sell itself harder than a crackwhore, we are approaching a point where we may end up with only 3-5 major ones left and a few focused on one title that's been around for decades (eve online, your DOTA games etc).
Doesn't really affect us as I think I'm safe in saying we all have backlogs that can outlast us being on Earth! So why not make this a fun opportunity to go 'you know, if you did this , you wouldn't be begging for money'. Choose whichever companies you want on what you think was a missed opportunity:
EA: Not using their IPs together enough. Seriously how hard would it have been to make a Battlefield game set in the Command and Conquer Red Alert or Tiberium franchise or even do a sports game but in the backdrop of Mass effect. They seemed to be all about processing IPs than using them effectively.
Bethesda: not using an Id engine for Fallout 4. When I played Rage, the story was lackluster but the combat and gameplay was smooth, fun with fantastic visuals. Unless there was a hidden licensing reason, why not use THAT for Fallout 4, that seemed like the perfect engine .
Nintendo: making it too difficult to buy and play older titles so creating a piracy market.
Microsoft: not letting gamers be the one to design their military AR project as they could've probably told you the dumb parts quickly.
Sony: Not embracing Japanese game devs, not leveraging their monopoly on anime with PS+ by doing, for example, free first 3 episodes of a series on Crunchyroll if you have PS+. Also on Crunchyroll, just put an adults only section for uncensored anime, have it behind a paywall of some small fee and a SECOND password and you'll probably get a lot more subscribers.
There's more I could mention like Ubisoft, Rockstar, CD projekt etc but gone on too long and let this be a collective 'I would've done this' thread.
This was known back in 2019 (I think. It was definitely a while!). The Forza community was really pissed that we lost Playground's full attention, but FH5 came out okay in the end.
I think Fable and FH6 are dead now, a feminist hedge fund poached all the team leads from Playground Games to make some insufferable GTA clone. Microsoft might need to reboot Forza Horizon entirely.
Microsoft. Why do you think they bid so high for it? It's never worth what they paid. $90 a share for a dying company at war with itself and subject to more ridiculous feminist rules than an orgy at FTX headquarters?
I don't have Xbox and never play racing games so it was off my radar, damn that's bad.
Why a GTA clone as there's no point, there's GTA V, despite all their horrible ideas and sometimes gross negligence (like currently thanks to a mod exploit, it is EXTREMELY dangerous to play GTA V on PC currently as modders/hackers can ban your account or even corrupt your pc), they still have a large playbase as turns out being a criminal in a virtual world is fun.
They had success with Saints Row doing it's own thing until the reboot killed it so then trying a GTA clone sounds like another dead on delivery game.
Well, if it wasn't funded by feminists, I'd say that GTA VI's confirmed female protagonist leaves a good chance for them to take over that market.
I greatly enjoyed GTA V, but I'm not playing as a woman, not even if they pay me.