I guarantee you that if you cut their development costs from 5 - 10 million to 1 to 2 million, they will be HAPPY. Since most of them are publicly traded companies, they would welcome that since it would increase their revenue per share and inch their stock higher.
I disagree - if I'm EA, say, and I can make money out of a market that is prohibitively expensive for the smaller players then my shareholders are going to be happy. If something came along that made development less painful, wholesale, then that is going to displease my shareholders because the economies of scale no longer apply so much. You should not be surprised to see me, EA, buying out anything that eases development... like oohhhhhh Renderware, which I can continue to license out in order to appear non monopolistic to pesky regulagtory bodies while raking in cash from my own competition.