While there has been plenty of fearmongering about a potential crash of the game industry, especially since the start of the recession, it seems to me that recently many of them are not that... fearsome.
At least quite a few gamers are starting to sound like they are actually waiting for the crash, just as fundamentalists are waiting for the Apocalypse or the Rapture (or otherwise their Judgement Day of choice), as the punishment for the wicked, and the start of a new, better world.
There is some logic behind this, for example big companies going bankrupt could lead to more competent ones taking their place, but that would only be worthit if you would think that actually being deprived of games until a new industry forms would be "worth it", or if you generally dislike the AAA gaming, and think that smaller self-organized teams of indie developers would provide more entertainment than a big industry.
Then again, as much as people like to badmouth the industry, most of us still play plenty of AAA games. So I guess those who talk like this are either the minority, or hypocrites.
So what about you? Are you afraid, or excited about the prospect of big publishers bankrupt, consoles discontinued, and AAA franchises dead, hoping that leads to a more humane, gamer-centric new industry?