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100% true. Same for video games—an individual has never had more power to compete in the video game market against the megacorps.

I think we'll soon see a suburban mom in middle America with a part-time penchant for storytelling make a blockbuster video game mostly by herself.

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Will there even be "blockbuster" video games, movies, books, etc? If hours after release, there are hundreds of lookalike clones, will there be "hits" like we know of today? We see this in the App Store today. It is just hard for me to see that part-time product being a big success, when at the first whiff of an interesting idea it will get repackaged, probably into something more effective.

Isn't that basically what Stardew Valley is? Obv the creator isn't a suburban mom but the premise is very similar.

Basically what made Sierra Online, as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment

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