How Will the Gaming Industry Crash?

[sundin13]

Lawlight said:

sundin13 said:
Well the AAA market is declining but I don't think the video game market will crash. I do think that there will be a large amount of companies that will need to rethink their strategies and as such we will lose a lot of great companies to the evils of Smartphones (dun dun duuuuhhh!)

but seriously, I don't like where gaming is headed >.> it scares me a bit

AAA market is declining?

I'd argue yes...It seems more and more devs are moving to smartphones or spending way too much on a game and considering a game like Resident Evil 6 (which sold ~5mil) a failure and Tomb Raider barely making profit until a few months ago etc.. The industry is getting too expensive and is on very shaky ground. How long can we milk the big names until we lose our footing?

I'm not saying it will crash, I'm just saying things are going to change and I'm not really sure if it will be for the better.