The points he argues are ultimately sound, but they are too strictly utilitarian. While gaming is a business, there is room for diversity in a first-party's portfolio that may not (or in cases like Sin and Punishment or Ico and its sequels, definitely will not) promote console sales, so long as these games are profitable in and of themselves and do not entirely take the picture away from console pushing titles.
In a world of pure numbers, there isn't a way to disprove Malstrom's arguments, mostly because proof against them would require a first-party to focus so entirely on console-pushing titles that we could be able to analyze the weakness of his ideology if it came to pass, but that won't happen, so he'll continue to take his refuge in his own world of things that cannot be disproven, similar to any man of religion who has lost an argument to an atheist
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
