> Maybe marketing is at the core of all of this malignment. Just a thought: You got these big "movie budget" games. They need to make that budget back, so they

> Maybe marketing is at the core of all of this malignment. Just a thought: You got these big "movie budget" games. They need to make that budget back, so they use (a large part of the budget for) marketing, in order to sell way more games. This then consumes a very large part of the market. Problem now is that a large chunk of the money made in the majority of the market is spent on marketing. And this chunk of money is locked in with the industry giants, the indies and smaller devs can never get to it. Marketing ate part of the gaming industry.