No, absolutely not. The power is with record labels and streaming services. You seem to be assuming that there's such a thing as a 'hit song' quality resident within the song, or a 'hit game' quality resident within the game, and that these are merely facilitated by the distribution channels: that's not how it works at all.
The hit things are a mechanism OF the distribution channel, which is how the 'hit' scales to those levels. If you go 'new methods' it only guarantees that you will never, ever have a hit thing. You might well have a culturally important or creatively valuable thing: they say the Velvet Underground spawned a thousand bands. But you simply don't reach the stupidly huge number of people unless you're part of the mechanism that's taking all the percentage out of that profit.
There's no such thing as that flattening of distribution, truly there isn't. There's no such potential. It's just tighter control of the channels by the record labels, media companies etc. and it's all middlemen, running the show. New media didn't make that better, it's substantially worse than it was.
The hit things are a mechanism OF the distribution channel, which is how the 'hit' scales to those levels. If you go 'new methods' it only guarantees that you will never, ever have a hit thing. You might well have a culturally important or creatively valuable thing: they say the Velvet Underground spawned a thousand bands. But you simply don't reach the stupidly huge number of people unless you're part of the mechanism that's taking all the percentage out of that profit.
There's no such thing as that flattening of distribution, truly there isn't. There's no such potential. It's just tighter control of the channels by the record labels, media companies etc. and it's all middlemen, running the show. New media didn't make that better, it's substantially worse than it was.