Basically there are only two developers worth mentioning today - Nintendo and Blizzard (it was largely due to Blizzard why Vivendi was able to buy Activision). Which is really sad, as 20-30 years ago, basically all of the todays big guys were releasing good or great games on a constant basis, opposed to today when virtually all studios are one-hit wonders, that release the standard 700 sequels up until people get bored.
It was the late 80's, when Sega was targeting the kids who grew up with NES, marketing their Megadrive as a "cool" and "more mature" console, that Sony continued with the Playstation line. Wii and DS were supposed to "change the face of gaming", in this context change the perception of gaming being for kids and adults who never grew up, targeting the the people who already grew out of Playstation. One you grow up, you think the "M", mature content, in a gamebox should be changed to "I", immature content.
One might ask, why cartoony games like Bejeweled and Angry Birds, that were made more with the mentality of "one guy, one night, one garage" are seen more mature than your typical 2 or 3-year production "hardcore game", that cost tens of millions to make, where blood is spilling everywhere, by people in their 30's and above, who were playing games all day and night when the "hardcore gamers" you see in the internet were still wearing diapers, or even before it.
How about the whining about used game sales. The industry is targeting the teenager who doesn't spend his own money into games, which means the barrier of purchase is low (the reason why everybody targets this group, as it's easy to sell). When the isn't as good as the teenager thought it would be, he sells the game used and buys another he might like, paying just a half of a new game with his own money.
If the sale of used games would be prevented, the industry would take a huge hit in terms of games sold and the revenue would go down (after the initial spike), as the teenagers would spend less their own money into games.
And what does this have to do with the doom-threads? Well, the threads made as "this is doomed, while others are not", is either stupidity or you're just fooling yourself; everyone is doomed. If the success of Wii and DS, and all the red ink spilled in the last decade didn't teach them anything, they deserve to be doomed.
