Right, but production cost has also increased steeply. Game scope has increased across the board, every asset is much more detailed (expensive) to produce and every developer is now more expensive than in the 00’s.

Ocarina of time reportedly cost ~12 million. Breath of the wild is estimated closer to 120 million, not counting marketing budgets for either.

Now games have gotten more popular but they haven’t gotten 10x more popular.

Yeah you just can’t be in a server room anymore without some dude trying to sell you on Office365 and Cortana, sigh.

Not really. But you know, gotta find ways to feel smarter than other people so here we go.