>>10978432because most of these video game series don't have a wide variety of characters that would sell well.
take for example gta, a series that hasn't had a action figure line not including third party figures or that one 1/6 claude figure.
If a company decided to get the license from rockstar (it wouldn't be cheap) and made a line for something like gta 5, they could only really make the 3 main protags and maybe lamar?
That's 4 figures, why waste all that time money and resources only to release 4 figures.
That's why nowadays we only really series with a MASSIVE list of characters get lines because they can always make more characters that will actually sell.
(Sonic the hedgehog, pokemon, mario, Street fighter, etc)