There's nothing to "ponder" as you so patronizingly put it, and your stats on gaming are self-evident.
Op never said they're selling games. They said they're making their own games and websites for a fraction of the cost (even $0). That's amazing value. And it's just getting better.
that $0 is meant to go on the side of the value add that justifies the sort of funding we are seeing?
I didn't mean to patronize, sometimes self evidence isn't trivial to notice.