At the moment, Wright pointed out, the core industry--made up of its designers, its press, and its hardcore consumers--is largely inbred. Most come from similar backgrounds, which in the case of its designers means technical ones, and in the case of the press and the hardcore gamers it means, well, having played hardcore games. The problem here is that, while that system certainly provides an audience that knows what it wants and a development community that knows how to deliver to that audience, there isn't much impetus to move forward since the whole collective can basically afford to view the industry through tunnel vision. People expect the same games with updated technology, and developers are quite good at producing them.

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