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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Arcade games were difficult because they were the microtransactions of the day, and console games were difficult because that’s how you made a simple game last longer.

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• panchzila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Game developers didn’t profit from rents.

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  • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But they sure did by selling extra copies, plus if the game was good we’d buy it. I’m convinced the TG-16 never took off because they didn’t let places rent games.

    Plus game rentals made owning a console more attractive and that means perhaps more potential sales for all games you’ve produced.

    Short view you’re right, long view I think rentals helped the industry much more than hurt it back then.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The publishers did.

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    • panchzila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not as much as if there was no rental business. It was bad for them, Nintendo even tried to stop blockbuster from renting their games. They weren’t designing games thinking about the rentals.

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      • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is funny is that we remember Nintendo still. NEC’s TurboGrafx -16 failed because you couldn’t rent games.

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      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The lion king monkey puzzle was made for the rental market.

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