In the case of Rage 2, it's had what seems like a slow start in the UK boxed market (opens in new tab), but perhaps a more relevant metric is looking at its all-time peak on Steam (opens in new tab): 13,591, compared to Doom 2016's 31,623 (opens in new tab). Of those, a few have been publicly confirmed successes, like Anno, Capcom's games and Sekiro. Jedi Fallen Order (opens in new tab) was marketed on being a singleplayer-only game with no loot boxes, which felt like an admission that EA had gone too far in the other direction. GTA 5's possible singleplayer DLC (opens in new tab) was mothballed in the face of more content for the successful online component, the demands of porting the game to more formats, and making Red Dead Redemption 2. Black Ops 4 was the first Call of Duty game not to feature a campaign.
Other factors have led to a sense that singleplayer games are in trouble: BioWare making a disappointing co-op game in Anthem instead of the singleplayer RPGs it's known for, for example. EA's Blake Jorgensen later suggested, according to this GameSpot article (opens in new tab), that the game wouldn't sell enough copies to justify itself. EA didn't say anything about singleplayer games specifically, but the reason given at the time was that the company was "listening to the feedback about what and how they want to play, and closely tracking fundamental shifts in the marketplace".
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