"AAA" gaming is also headed in a bad, but different, direction. Most money now comes from microtransactions, and the temptation to sell what amounts to an unregulated slot machine with a game attached will be hard to resist for most publishers.
In fact, the current CEO of Unity (One of the most popular game engine) said that anyone who's not baking monetization into their games right from the start is "f*king idiot".