@beardalaxy
Fifa/call of duty was the black pill on that topic. While the gamer culture is still a strong driving force behind sales of consoles, there are two paralel economies to ours.
1) Mobile/facebook moms.
2) Sports games + COD
And these paralel economies are just as insular as you could immagine, they are still huge drivers of revenue. But I don't see that as a bad thing of itself, since both do boost the gaming economy in general. The issue is just, that the entire topic of gaming is insanely convoluted to talk about, since you're covering several cultures.
Ironically enough, I kinda had to accept this while going to conventions. They are THE DEFINITION of culture clash, since it's the ONLY FUCKING PLACE to socialize for young people, no matter if they are gamers like me, trooned out weirdos, or even the Artist chicks. Those are 3 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURES, all forced into the same place. And it works about as well as London right now :D