I spoke to over 40 game developers whose companies had been impacted by layoffs in the last year. They shared with me the explanations companies gave them for what was causing the sudden loss of their livelihood, but they also told me why those explanations didn’t always seem to match reality.
It’s a combination of only the good ones surviving in people’s memory and probably an increasing number of studios and developers since the earlier days of gaming, which creates more noise.
But ultimately I think really good games have just always been kind of rare.