I have a high suspicion that the AAA marketers and other 'researchers' aren't even bothering to count and calculate indie sales the way I am. I frequently do comparisons as part of my research to see what's doing well among other things. It's pure corpo propaganda to try and claim the games industry is dead.
This is the normie equivalent of Walmart getting butthurt and saying the economy has fallen on hard times because they're going out of business and in an alternate world everyone rejected them and went for the high street shopping instead.
This is the normie equivalent of Walmart getting butthurt and saying the economy has fallen on hard times because they're going out of business and in an alternate world everyone rejected them and went for the high street shopping instead.