From my understanding the end of a Golden Era, at least for a form of an entertainment media is a good thing. In the Golden Age of film all films were censored and the movie theaters were controlled by the film studios so you may have had to watch only that studios films while the Golden Age of comics were also censored and limited very much by nationality, the fact that we can read foreign comics translated easily can be seen as a good thing, Naruto not withstanding.Still, if Dyack is as big a supporter of cloud gaming as he claims, it's an odd choice of words: "End of the golden era" sort of implies that these will be detrimental to the games industry, doesn't it?
Right now the vast majority of games are made by big companies and can often be console specific. As for censorship that can be debated though my heart goes out to the Australian gamers and yes their are many independent studios there many failed ones as well. Things are changing for the good though. Even the Escapist is hosting a make a game contest and the advent of services like OnLive may make it easier for gamers who don't have the resources to constantly upgrade their game rigs to play high end games (lag can be compensated for with time) at a fraction of the cost (not a very small fraction but a fraction none the less).