> Is there any possibility of the video game industry market shifting toward C# in forseeable future?
No chance at all.
It offers nothing that C/C++ doesn't already. It has no game libraries written for it at all. It is largely unsupported on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Android, Linux, Mac, etc).
Best case scenario: The XBox 720 allows "apps" to be written in C# and sold to end-users. So C# becomes the de-facto indie game language of the XBox 720 (as in mini-games, not full AAA titles).
No chance at all.
It offers nothing that C/C++ doesn't already. It has no game libraries written for it at all. It is largely unsupported on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Android, Linux, Mac, etc).
Best case scenario: The XBox 720 allows "apps" to be written in C# and sold to end-users. So C# becomes the de-facto indie game language of the XBox 720 (as in mini-games, not full AAA titles).