The problem here is that the Western AAA industry isn't "the only world we've ever known or can conceptualise"...
Most people have been living in a very different world for over a decade. It's games media that actively chose to stay in Geoff Keighley's PR Dreamland, where 2012 never ended...
@aftermath.site'Grand Theft Auto VI, The Last Blockbuster'
GTAVI won't be the last AAA video game, but it sure does feel like the last one we'll ever see at this scale.
aftermath.site/gta-vi-grand-t...
