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Unrelated but feels like gaming somehow avoided this "milking" cycle of franchises since indies games can thrive alongside with AA/AAA. Although milking happens with franchises like CoD and those EA sports games but beyond that there's always something news in term of concept, genres, etc.

How does the gaming industry does this so well? Is it due to low barrier of entries? Or something else I'm unsure of.

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Here's my opinion. The gaming industry had a period of overreliance on certain genres from around 2007-2014 but has since diversified noticeably. That overreliance began because of the financial crash of 2008 and a bifurcation between indie and AAA, with the middle segment of the market crashing out.

The barrier to entry to make a game lowered since then. During this period Japanese games lost popularity due to a failure to achieve AAA scale, but now they're able to comfortably occupy that sub-AAA space again.

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