WinterSnowfall: Compare that to the constant stream of platformers, RPGs, FPSes etc. being released every week and I hope you'll see what I meant when I said it's being "abandoned" :). Ok, I'll give you that "largely neglected" would have been a better term perhaps.
Mafwek: You can't play RTS games on consoles. It is "abandoned" genre.
Actually, in the 7th generation (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) there were some solid RTS games, the more traditional build and fight-type and also the tactical. Just to name a few:
- C & C 3 series
- C & C Red Alert 3
- Battalion Wars 2
- Supreme Commander series
- Swords and Soldiers
- RUSE
- Halo Wars 1
- Tom Clancys Endwar
- Universe at War (SEGA)
- Lord of the Rings / Middle Earh series
- Warhammer Mark of Chaos
- Toy Soldier series
- Stormrise (SEGA)
- Darwinia series
- World in Conflict series
- Star Trek strategy games (Legacy, Conquest)
Tower defense type games:
- Anomaly series
- Defender of Ardania
- Defense Grid
... and more
New "classic base building type" RTS game is quite rare today, even on PC.
Here are some of the available RTS games on PS4 (and also XB1, if you choose the button), selected by Metacritic.
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/genre/date/real-time/ps4?view=condensed https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/genre/date/real-time/xboxone?view=condensed The genre is not dead, but somehow the MOBA and similar real-time strategy games are more popular nowadays.