That's equivalent to the amount of labor it took to build some of the minor Egyptian pyramids.
And on that topic, same with Wikipedia, why "must" you have your development base in the most expensive place on the West Coast?
Per https://www.gamedevmap.com/ there are Many other, less expensive, locations. America has a bunch, even Africa has gamedevs. They're an International megacorp, with 3 billion monthly active user (probably still a lot of dupes). India has the largest FB audience (366 million, 2024), not America (100 million). Will an Indian developer make you a launch app for less than $1M+/yr? New Dehli has 17 game studios (including Riot Games) and Mumbai has 33 (Ubisoft Mumbai and Pune).
While in many cases folks are overpaid in big tech, some of them are insanely talented people who can do things others simply cannot.
Probably because of this:
> How does any company burn $36 billion on a headset they got handed a prototype for?
John Carmack appears to be brilliant. I'd guess he would admit the VR market didn't turn out as hoped.
That's not what he said though. What he said is that Meta is basically incompetent.