How is this AAA game developer VS indie game developer thing going to end?

I am curious to know what people think the future holds for gaming, when it comes to the whole indie developer vs big budget developer “battle” that is going on.

The way I see it, when it comes to games you have two paths you can take.

You could go for an indie game, like Minecraft. Made by people who are mainly interested in creating a fun game. Otherwise you can go for a AAA game, like Call Of Duty, made by people who are mainly interested in making money.

Indie games get to keep creative control, they take risks, try new things, and aim for creating games with fun mechanics and good gameplay. However, they don’t have the budget big companies do, and the quality of graphics is usually much lower.

Big budget games get to turn out games with amazing cutting edge graphics, and can afford to hire all the best people. However, these games hardly ever have as much personality, because in order to make money, new things are hardly ever tried to avoid risk.

I can imagine this all leading to a world, where Indie game developers take all the risk and create the most fun games, and then once the market and model is proven to work, the big guys will move in and rip off the ideas to create big budget versions, and I can’t decide if I think this is a good thing or not.

What do you all think?