Originally Posted by GhanBuriGhan 
True unfortunately. It does however create a middle market that would be open to small developers to take advantage off. I hope the ITS / DoubleBear people will become such a studio
Those people, people like Vogel, are doing the same thing though. They can only make a certain level of game presentation-wise and they say "how can I get the most sales for what I can make?" The answer is to serve a passionate and starved audience.
Once he or anyone else thinks they have the money or opportunity to net a wider audience they will go for it, same as any other. Unless they are truly passionate about the niche themselves anyway. Passionate to ignore money.