But why would the "new players" even think about hiring "old guys" when the old guys are the ones who messed this entire thing up to begin with?
What we're seeing with indies is the exact thing that occurred with the introduction of NES and Master System - a flourishing of new game ideas with the simple concept of gameplay and solid play control as the foundation to build upon.
I say let the industry, as it is currently, crash and burn. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Take Two deserve to fall apart after all of this nonsense they've been pushing for in our beloved games industry.
And no way would the industry become just mobile games. Mobile will stay just that...mobile. They can't pierce into the home console market. Not with the types of genres home console gaming can create with tight, twitch-based gameplay. Fight games, platformers, deep action RPGs - these all require one simple premise. A gamepad. A touch screen wouldn't do them justice.