Tumbler wrote on Aug 2, 2010, 13:15:

I think that Indies may throw a spanner at these plans, Indies are right now the wild card. Whether or not they become a force in the industry however is a guess, it'll depend if more people buy more Indie games and less mainstream ones.

To be honest, if the industry all went Indie, with only Indie developers and no publishers, I for one would love to see that.

With digital distribution systems like steam and battle.net indie developers are going to have a tough time getting noticed. With so much of a gamers time being forced behind these walls it's going to be harder than ever for most indie projects to get a gamers attention. (unless they pay these services to advertise them, which is basically paying your competition...)