Here's my opinion. The gaming industry had a period of overreliance on certain genres from around 2007-2014 but has since diversified noticeably. That overrelia

Here's my opinion. The gaming industry had a period of overreliance on certain genres from around 2007-2014 but has since diversified noticeably. That overreliance began because of the financial crash of 2008 and a bifurcation between indie and AAA, with the middle segment of the market crashing out. The barrier to entry to make a game lowered since then. During this period Japanese games lost popularity due to a failure to achieve AAA scale, but now they're able to comfortably occupy that sub-AAA space again.