I would have prefered a Could be in that title . I think the author has a lot of great observations and arguments , but we ' re still discussing consumers and they can be very fickle and unpredictable . Swathes of the AAA game market now face an attention vacuum as huge AAA titles suck up the focus of consumers longtermI feel like this is conjecture . There were MMOs before now , there was Star Craft and Counter Strike , there was Civilization and Guitar Hero and many other franchises that kept people playing for ages . I find the argument that people buy fewer games in years where consoles are released more relevant this year . You have the 1 . 2 versions of Xbox and Playstation and you have a ton of VRMachines being sold . These systems cost a lot and they soak up a lot of the cash that would normally be spent on games in this period . On top of that VRgames do not show up in physical statistics .