Fallen, certainly, but few developers have survived since even that period of time unchanged. Only Nintendo has really endured in a recognizable form from that point. I mean, Squaresoft of old is lamented, Enix is gone, Midway is gone, Sega is unrecognizable, as is Namco. Naughty Dog went from stuff like Crash Bandicoot to Uncharted (though both have been pivotal for their platform), Bungie was irrelevant back then, Infinity Ward nonexistant, Activision a very different company
EA i suppose has also lived from that time unchanged, but the point is that outside EA and Nintendo, no-one is really doing the same thing they were in the late 90's, though that's been a positive change for some, and strictly a change for others (Naughty Dog, doing just as well with Drake as with Crash, but it's definitely different)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
