Editing Video game development (section)

=== Stability ===
Video game industry employment is fairly volatile, similar to other artistic industries including television, music, etc. Scores of game development studios crop up, work on one game, and then quickly go under.{{sfn|McShaffry|2009|pp=19–20}} This may be one reason why game developers tend to congregate geographically; if their current studio goes under, developers can flock to an adjacent one or start another from the ground up.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}

In an industry where only the top 20% of products make a profit,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/11/21/games-eedar-developers-tech-ebiz-cx_mji_1121eedar.html| title=Profile: Cooking Up A BlockBuster Game | first=Mary | last=Irwin | work=Forbes | access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> it is easy to understand this fluctuation. Numerous games may start development and are cancelled, or perhaps even completed but never published. Experienced game developers may work for years and yet never ship a title: such is the nature of the business.{{Cn|date=January 2021}}