Nope, no chance of an inidividual keeping up with Sony, or ILM. Best you could hope for in that direction would be to get yourself onto a dev. team or into a studio.
Still,
There are many indy film makers. They are not Universal Studios; yet that fact has not stopped them from making movies. Same with games; OK, the game is not EA, but it's still pretty good :)
You can make money too. Not all clients/customers (by a long long shot) are in the position to demand ILM level output. They can't afford it either.

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