[SXX]

Yes, you can work as lone indie dev, but only if you have savings to sustain you for 2-3 years or if you can live on ramen. For every successful indie game there are thousands of games that never been completed or failed on release.

With small exceptions people buy AAA games from EA / Ubisoft / Activision / etc for the same reason why people go to watch christmas movies - they know what exactly they gonna get. No surprises.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Well yes, of course. What else would you expect? Art has to find an audience large enough to support it or it fails. Same as it ever was.

The great thing about game dev is that you have low barriers to entry and the entire internet is a potential audience.