This is why I believe that the AAA will be easier to do in the future. With the tech slowing down and photorealism being easier than ever to do, we will have in one or two generations enough games that did the job to simply push from the base for a long time. TLou 3 or 4 will be good enough as a base to make super DLC tech wise if you see what I mean. Or GTA being good enough for 10 years now. This will be the path going forward, for those who already have great IP. The FIFA model of incremental upgrades. For new IP I can see them using early access more and more with mods used to push them up to parity with older AAA until a game made enough to warrant the work needed to be modernised. For consoles Sony will either go the Nintendo route of being one of the few to make it work in their consoles, or go GAAS all the way (
) and be like GTA with 10 years plans. Microsoft will continue Gamepass so early access in all but name too.