Game developers didn’t profit from rents.
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GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 months agoThat is the most boomer shit I have ever heard. Games were difficult because the rental market was huge.
panchzila@lemmy.world 10 months ago
teamevil@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The publishers did.
panchzila@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
teamevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What is funny is that we remember Nintendo still. NEC’s TurboGrafx -16 failed because you couldn’t rent games.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The lion king monkey puzzle was made for the rental market.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months 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.