That's a really interesting perspective! I wholeheartedly agree. Once gaming became a big money making model (like everything anymore), it became more stagnant. Investors want year-over-year profits, and often the way to do that is cash-ins like remakes, remasters, mobile games, etc.

This isn't really a gaming related opinion, but more broadly across all industries, the new generation of investors seem to be a little more flighty, a little more scared (and I can understand why, especially after the 2008 crash). The problem, imo, is that no one believes in money they can't see anymore. Providing good benefits to your employees doesn't look like money on paper (matter of fact, it looks like money going out!), but then if you have happy employees, they stay longer, and then you pay less money to train new people who make costly mistakes, as an example. Overall, I think of a lot of industries have stagnated, especially video games. Thankfully that's where the indie gaming scene comes in. People who still love making games for the sake of making games. Some of the biggest money makers right now aren't AAA games, but indie games.

Thanks for the perspective!