I am a former game dev who worked for one of the top AAA game studios in the world in a lead programmer role. At my first FAANG job, my compensation was like 2x higher than game dev. Now it’s many times higher still but admittedly I have been out of gaming for 15 years and have a senior leadership role. I generally do think that for a given talent/experience level the rest of the industry pays much more with way better work-life balance, it’s a combination of supply/demand and business model (at least for AAA) vs SaaS. You can strike it big in games if you are lucky (e.g. create Minecraft) but it’s much easier to do that at a startup or big tech.