The Minutes of Gavin Baker on gaming https://minutesof.com/gavin-baker/on/gaming/ Everything Gavin Baker has said on gaming: 2 verbatim quotes between November 2019 and July 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:45 +0000 Baker calculates rendering Monopoly Go with VEO3 would cost over 100x the game's revenue. https://minutesof.com/q/92c8f11c-3e80-4ba8-9041-57c9ce86cb86/ https://minutesof.com/q/92c8f11c-3e80-4ba8-9041-57c9ce86cb86/ “Monopoly Go is a game where we have the revenue and the hours played and it is to render it using list prices for something like VEO3 is more than two orders of magnitude greater than its revenue. So what is the role for human creativity, man? I don't know.” — Generating Alpha Podcast Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:54:53 +0000 gaming Baker provides specific monetization rates: mobile games earn 8-10 cents per hour versus 50 cents for console https://minutesof.com/q/4fb4623a-0df9-4d80-861e-5a7d6a6ab8f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/4fb4623a-0df9-4d80-861e-5a7d6a6ab8f1/ “From a monetization perspective, your average mobile phone game monetizes, let's call it, 8 to 10¢ an hour. If it's not average, that's a reasonably well monetized game.” — Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 gaming