>>509610053What? Gabe, Carmack, and Myamoto, all grew up as gamers. Are you serious? I can list even more if you want. They got into gaming business because they were gamers themselves, each in their own eras of course. They're not gen Z online gamers, obviously. They played more arcade, consoles or PCs.
The ones that aren't gamers but where still successful were Ken the father of playstation, who is a hardware nerd, and Tim Sweeney, a software nerd. Heck even Ken got into gaming industry because his daughter loves gaming and he thought he could easily trash Nintendo with his hardware nerdiness.
Anon, you're wrong. There's very few successful gaming companies were these three groups, gamers, game devs, or nerds, weren't highly successful. Usually business suits do a bad job. There are cases they got it right, but it's less common. You need to know your clients.