This interview with Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of the Xbox, has been making the rounds recently:
https://gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox-founder-thinks-of-the-new-xbox-ceo-seamus-blackley-interview/
I like this exchange in particular:
QuoteGamesBeat: Games seem so difficult as a business still. Many years later, it's as hard as it ever was.
Blackley: That's why it's so compelling! That's why we love it! Games are the combination of everything that's hard. It's an entertainment business, which is almost impossible. I was a partner at Creative Artists Agency. I saw all of these creative business models fail continuously. From bankers to guys running studios to guys running record labels to publishers–remember, I did all the mechanical licenses for Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I saw all of those things. That's almost impossible.
Technology, making a renderer? Almost impossible! It's so hard to do. So hard to do. And then writing. You have to write the game. You have to do game design. Almost impossible as well. You have to distribute it. You have to keep up with the changes in technology and the changes in customer taste. It's like the hardest parts of four or five different industries combined in one place. That's what makes it terrifying, but that's also what makes it so compelling. There's no other art form that can enthrall you in so many ways at the same time when it works. And when it doesn't work it really doesn't work, but when it works, there's nothing else that can do that. There is just nothing else.
I've always been saying this. I'm glad someone agrees with me.
it's true. i can't seem to begin beginning this one :/