That statement shouldn't be read as Braid being the first indie game (it wasn't by a long shot). But as Braid making indie games popular. Before Braid, the ave

That statement shouldn't be read as Braid being the first indie game (it wasn't by a long shot). But as Braid making indie games popular. Before Braid, the average (console) gamer did not know what an indie game was. Or if they did, generally considered indie games to be terrible.