Like it or not, casual games are becoming a much, much bigger market than "hardcore" games.
Bejeweled is one of the most profitable game franchises right now. If I were writing that game from scratch today, I would do it in Flash or HTML5. That gets you every desktop that matters, and the number of mobile devices that support those technologies is still growing.
Yeah the casual game industry is exploding, and my startup's a big part of it!
My argument wasn't that casual games have any problem, but that Flash itself is just one component of an industry that is increasingly focused on mobile.
Like it or not, casual games are becoming a much, much bigger market than "hardcore" games.
Bejeweled is one of the most profitable game franchises right now. If I were writing that game from scratch today, I would do it in Flash or HTML5. That gets you every desktop that matters, and the number of mobile devices that support those technologies is still growing.