Is this everyone including Graphics designers? Not just developers?
Why are the economics of Gaming so not aligned? The cost of making Games are going up YoY. Revenue and Profits seems to be up too. We have better middleware like Unreal than ever before, and yet the cost keep going up but not salary.
And it seems Nintendo doesn't have any of these problem.
Someone please explain to me like I am five.
We don't really know a lot about their process, but considering a lot of their games are made in Japan and what has been said in the past, there is guaranteed to be crunch there as well. People sleeping in their offices for days on end before shipping a game, etc.
It seems to me that the on the opposite end of the scale you have Database administrator. Pretty much all non-trivial software projects need databases, their proper administration is absolutely essential, and it's the least sexy sounding role in a software team.
My (completely untested, and semi-serious) career advice is to read a reference manual for a database like PostgreSQL cover to cover.