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[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, and they sold significantly fewer copies because video games weren't a popular household product at the time; they needed a higher markup to make a reasonable profit. Mario Kart 8 sold nearly 76 million copies. Nintendo made well over a reasonable profit on that game even with a significantly smaller markup, and they would easily continue to do so with the subsequent entry at the same price.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Solid point! But yes, the Atari 2600 was in pretty much every middle-class home at the time. Didn't get mine for years later because my parent's lived the Depression and WWII, didn't see the value in a $100 game. :)

So you're saying economies of scale and population made goods cheaper? That's sounds suspiciously like capitalism.

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