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This is demonstrably false. I mean, if "mainstream" means "successful to broad audiences", that'd be games with crafting/building elements (Forntite, Roblox, Minecraft, The Sims), sports games (FIFA) and a bunch of competitive games (League of Legends, CounterStrike, CoD). Plus a couple of outliers, too (Mario Kart, GTA V, Animal Crossing). Batman, God of War and RE do... fine? They do fine. But they're not the "mainstream" of the gaming industry, they are games for a specific slice of players, they would need 10x the reach to compete.
RE4 Remake sold what? 5-7 million units? Mario Kart was breaking 50 million last year. People don't have a grasp on what games are actually popular.
Youre saying that RE4 remake sold the same number of copies as Anthem. So either Resident Evil, a franchise that is basically a household name since the 4th game with multiple movies, is not mainstream, or Anthem is? Resident Evil is equally as mainstream as Mario or Minecraft is, because becoming mainstream does not only depend on sales.
If someone who didnt play games saw you playing a certain game, would they think you were a nerd for playing that game? Generally, that is a good metric to measure what is mainstream or what isnt. People will look at a game like Stellaris and instantly think only a nerd would play it. And I mean, yeah, only a nerd would play Stellaris. But they wouldn't think that only a nerd would play Resident Evil, and they would probably be able to guess it was Resident Evil, despite themselves not playing video games.
Regardless, my point still remains that I agree with the CEO of Crate. RTS cannot be a mainstream genre without losing its core identity that makes the RTS genre different from other games.
Wait, what?
Who thinks anybody is a nerd for playing anything? Did you time travel from the mid 1990s? What the hell? Civilization 6 and Total War:Warhammer are the top 29 and 30 most played games on Steam right now, Resident Evil 4 is 221 on that list. Stellaris, incidentally, is number 45.
Maybe you make a habit of giving Civ players wedgies, I don't know how old you are, but over in the real world that's not a thing. Mainstream means mainstream, and it's way more likely that both your mom and your little brother play Civ or Mario Kart than Resident Evil or God of War.
"Mainstream" doesn't mean your online friends like it. People who make things "mainstream" don't post about games online, they just... play them.