Youre right, of course, but there is a silver lining. When these things happen, it's a bit like a bubble bursting, only instead of an industry collapsing, it's

Youre right, of course, but there is a silver lining. When these things happen, it's a bit like a bubble bursting, only instead of an industry collapsing, it's you and I who collapse. We give up trying to convince the masses they're losing something special, and move into a niche with other like minded folks where creativity thrives. Just like you can still go to a carpenter and get custom hand made chairs, indies will always develop outside the corporate nonsense. When a developer sells out to Microsoft or Sony, what that developer is signaling is that they've run out of ideas and are retiring from creativity to instead produce chum. It sucks but it's also kind of helpful to know who cares and who doesn't.