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human
ELI5: why the creator of mine craft is a billionaire and Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of mario, donkey kong, legend of zelda is only worth 40 million?
gpt
In the initial phases of minecraft, the creator was the only one creating it. And when its property was growing, only a small team was involved in development. So initial proceeds are split in between small people only. And when the team grew larger, he still earned money

Meanwhile, Mario and Zelda were not created by small teams. They were created by a larger studio of developers at Nintendo. The profit is split in between larger amounts of developers, meaning less money goes to the actual creator.


lastly, Miyamoto had to put a lot of money into funding creation of new games. That's why his profit is a little slower. Because development costs for minecraft are much lower.