alt Hacker NewsBlizzard being a generally terrible developer aside, I don’t think you’re right about this.
RTS is not a very popular genre all things considered, and the ARTS/MOBA variants are dominated by DOTA and League of Legends.
You also can’t play RTS games on consoles.
A lot of fans of StarCraft still wish they saw StarCraft: Ghost see the light of day. Arguably the franchise is very much underdeveloped. The IP and story would work well for many game genres that haven’t been explored.
If StarCraft 3 comes out it would only be popular in South Korea and possibly not all that popular at all even there.
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> You also can’t play RTS games on consoles.
Pikmin.
You realize people said the exact same stuff before SC2, right? Saying it's a dead genre, nobody is going to buy it so they won't make it, etc. And yet SC2 was extremely successful. I predict SC3 would be equally successful if Blizzard can do a good job making it (which is not certain these days).
> You also can’t play RTS games on consoles.
You certainly can. See Halo Wars.
> You also can’t play RTS games on consoles.
You can, see StarCraft 64.