https://store.steampowered.com/app/1142710/Total_War_WARHAMMER_III/
This is fascinating because I do keep a general eye on the market and there seems to be massive pushback happening from gamers who properly play these games. Normally there are more than a few fanbois out there who will defend DLCs to the death but it seems even the majority of gamers now have had enough of the DLC policies these studios follow. On top of that it seems elsewhere people are reporting on the shoddy releases coming out where they just don't run well.
One game (one!) escapes the linked traits of incompetence and abject hatred that characterizes woke games, and that's going to make a difference? The industry is already far left, there's a black female main character in 7/10 games, and eventually they're going to run out of money.
Back when I was growing up, everyone played Gears and Halo, not just the nerds. Idk who the hell is buying games nowadays outside of lootbox addict adults and kids.
This is poor speculation on my part but I think a lot of media was beginning to see that it was not profitable to be woke, it was still pushing forward despite it but it was going to end.
Now they can better blame failures on other factors simply because BG3 is a success, you can't claim force diversity, gender theory or gay/trans sex does not sell when it clearly sells. At the very least is not a factor that affects sales anymore so why change it.
Idk you're assuming that they're weighing the evidence with some degree of rationality, when most signs point to the decision makers wanting to burn cash.
It would put us in a weird spot if we continued to see woke games that play well though. That's kind of like saying it would be tough if we invented wet fire.