Is shrinking market size all that bad?

[JEMC]

MikeRox said:

JEMC said:

With a smaller market, what will happen is that either publishers invest less in the games, opting for either less games but as big as they are now (AAAs) or as many games but with smaller budgets (so worse graphics and/or smaller worlds, maybe even shorter). Whatever the choice they make, we lose.

How do we lose? The sooner the bloatware jack of all trades AAA nonsense vanishes the better.

But AAA games aren't bad per se, they only become a problem when they are the ultimate goal for every game. What's more, they are a necessity because even though it's usually the indie or small games the ones that try new or different things, it's the AAA games that push the boundaries of what is possible in terms of scale and graphics.

Thinking that if the AAA games vanish we will be better is foolish.