It's actually work in favor of gaming BIGTIME
AAA is going out of reach of western developers because cost factors. A game like Wukong cannot be made today, no publisher has balls to take a bet on 10yrs projects like GTA.
A team at work, collaborated with Volta in canada, one outsourced concept art costs 3500, team needs 6 every month. 2 of these concept are modelled, animated --- costing 10000k for each.
Its just not viable anymore with human