1. Crytek - lol. Understatement.
2. Halo/Destiny - How on earth did you come to that conclusion?
3. Actally, a lot of the studios that have closed have been AA devs, not AAA devs. Also, there have been news devs come in too...like Playground games and The Coalition.
4. Your purchases have gone down, fine, but other factors could be at play here...like shifting interests, lack of creativity, etc.
You think more people want to play Halo over Destiny? Has Halo 5 even broke Halo 3's top user numbers? Last I heard, Destiny had something like 30 million users https://www.vg247.com/2016/05/05/ac...30m-players-online-player-community-hits-55m/
AA, & AAA Devs have been closing by the butt load last Gen, and this Gen... I haven't heard of near as many high end Devs being created this Gen. All I ever hear about is how AAA Devs are going under, or in trouble due to huge budgets, and poor sales.
That's possible, but I usually collect most AAA games regardless of interest... The shift to online only/unfinished games probably hurt the numbers somewhat.