No, small teams being too ambitious are killing themselves. And CoD last gen, that was killing anything in its path.

Seriously though, many gamers have this erroneous idea that anything that isn't top budget, AAA games are bad or not worth the time. If anything, all the PS+ indies that I've gotten since the beginning of this year have showed how smaller titles can help consoles during droughts.

Yes, yes, yes! I have been saying this for over a year now.
Look at that Murdered: Soul Suspect developer and Crytek among others. Soon the only AAA games will be COD and AC because they know they will get money from it.

AAA games aren't killing killing the industry. Mediocre games are killing studios.

Its a competitive market with a plenty of notable AAA games every year. There is no need for games like Murdered: Soul Suspect, Ryse, Knack, etc.

Those games may be mediocre but they are definitely different from the norm. Id rather developers try to make something different and take risks instead of releasing brown grey shooter 492.

What exactly are you whining about? Not everything released at retail is a shooter. There is also plenty of variety if you look through digital releases.

Hence, you can avoid shooters completely and still have plenty to play. If you want a little more variety outside of what core gamers generally enjoy, then maybe you should do more gaming on Wii U and PC.

No.

If anything, it's otherwise.

Bad publisher and developer decisions are killing the industry. Not any type of game per say.

Absolutely correct. I avoid shooters completely and still have a backlog of games to play. 

If anything, AAA games have helped the industry immensely. Without AAA games, we probably wouldn't even have PS4 and XOne, because I seriously doubt people would pay $400-500 to play only Towerfall and Minecraft. Nintendo would probably still be there, releasing 6-8 games per year to a core Nintendo audience of 10 million tops, others would play Candy Crush on their phone, and most current gamers would have been engaged in another hobby, whether movies, butterfly collecting or DIY carpentry.

You need AAA games. They cost more to make but they bring in way more money. The same applies in almost all other forms of media. Imagine if Ubisoft didn't have Watch Dogs or Ass Creed money to count on, would they have released Valiant Hearts or Child of Light this year? If EA did not have Battlefield or Madden money rolling in, would we be seeing a Mirror's Edge 2? If Sony wasn't banking on Uncharted or Last of Us HD revenue, would we be seeing The Order? Would there be a PS+ edition of Driveclub? Hell, would DC even exist after all the delays?

The writer does himself no favors by bringing up Airtight Games. They developed one of the worst games I have played in a long time. Maybe that's why they went belly up? Nah, has to be the fault of the industry.

Are bigger companies killing smaller companies? Yes.

Is anyone opposed to the free market? No.