Not really.
What competition is driving OOTP to continually do better? How many text baseball sims are out there?
What competition is there for strategic war games? Not exactly the biggest thriving money-maker out there, yet there's some innovative ideas coming from developers in the genre. Koei's been making them for 26 years, always trying something new, and what's the competition in the space?
Heck, how many RTS's are out there anymore? You don't even see clones that much now. Did that stop SC2 from getting better with its expansion? Fantasy 4x games? Not that many. (Some might say none since Age of Wonders or, going way back, Master of Magic). Didn't stop Elemental from improving.
It's all about the vision of the creators and their willingness to listen to the players and see them as allies in the process, not a force to be broken and suppressed into "playing the game our way." Which is a mentality the seems to exist too much these days in gaming in general.