I think it keeps not dying because it keeps printing $$$ for rockstar. it is the highest grossing individual media OF ALL TIME, EVER, and consistently top grossing year after year - and it came out in 2013! If you made just under a billion dollars of literal profit off of a videogame every year...
I'm actually super hyper for RE8, anything Ratchet and Clank, and to be honest Demons' Souls remastered will probably be the time I finally end up buying into it. I won't end up with a PS5 for another few years at least, as I still have a massive back catalogue on the 4, but it'll be nice to...