Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

if it wasn't successful, they would have also changed it. or worse, they would have gone out of business.

Yeah I'm with 6624, the logic is fairly sound. Many games that achieve mainstream success tend to have sequels tailored to the book to gain more at expense of niche.

And there's plenty of titles that get by comfortably targeting a rather specific niche. Like the Paradox grand strategies, very unforgiving so won't be getting much mainstream appeal.