What is the life of an affluent game studio owner like?

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spynx said:

Hiku said:

I think most of the big studios are owned by their shareholders, and not 1 or 2 specific people.
Not sure how it looks like for the owners of the not-so-big ones.

Ok.

I remember that during the 1990's personal computer boom in Europe and Australia that came of the back of home computers like the C64 - Amiga 500 - Amstrad etc that lead to a golden age in European and especially British software development,seeing in game mags quite a few story focused on the development teams  quite often accompanied by pictures of exotic cars outside developers homes, I remember looking back and thinking wow some of these games have only sold between 50 and 100 thousand copies, but the difference is that 3 to 6 million in revenue even after all the various costs was unlike today quite often being split between just 2 or 3 people. one I remember was one of the guys from sensible software showing of his new lambo and while by the time of the photo they had grown to a reasonable size studio for the era, around iirc thirty people they had a series of successful games and the original members owned the studio.