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[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cartridges cost a lot more to produce than cheap, plastic discs or modern, SD card-esque flash storage.

[-] riplin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Games in 1994 cost on average $60. That’s about $128 today. The cost of production of those games was at most a few dollars more in materials. Not nearly enough to explain the price difference. Games were simply more expensive then than they are now.

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