Piracy Vs. Alternative Entertainment:Which is the 'true' threat to the industry?

While I believe you are right that those games didn't revolutionalize anything at all... is there anything to rev anyway?
I'm not excusing those games for being sh'itty games, but the sole argument of revolutionlize I think is not valid anymore 'cuz is really hard to achieve that for game devs nowadays (See kinect).

That's probably the wrong word I want to use. I'm tired of them rehashing the same game every year or two. Mario galaxy was amazing, even with the same generic story line. It's that creativity we're missing right now.