www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20180117/313211/The_cost_of_games.php

Think of the whole industry as a mature market. We’re running out of platforms shifts that reset costs.

Get good at systemic design, design for retention, design for community. Basically, think like an MMO developer. Yeah, that means designing everything as games as a service.

Embrace procedur-ality.

But also embrace brand-building and marketing, because you ain’t gonna survive without it. This market is going keep getting more crowded.