I feel like the way the industry will stay afloat in it's current state, as much as I don't really like it, is the games as a service model. You have the initial $60 game release that gives you a single player aspect and mutliplayer content for a set period of time and then you pay an annual fee for content updates e.g. Destiny 2's annual pass. Then you will have the purely multiplayer games that will launch at a lower base cost but will require an access pass on a rolling monthly...
I feel like the way the industry will stay afloat in it's current state, as much as I don't really like it, is the games as a service model. You have the initial $60 game release that gives you a single player aspect and mutliplayer content for a set period of time and then you pay an annual fee for content updates e.g. Destiny 2's annual pass. Then you will have the purely multiplayer games that will launch at a lower base cost but will require an access pass on a rolling monthly...