>games were $90 dollars back th-
Back then people just rented games.
The game industry managed to largely stamp that out now, but back then you only ACTUALLY bought a game if you really liked it.
You would rent the games, in a rental store.

I'm sorry your parents were poor

>>712911907
>he bought a bunch of shitty games without testing em first

>>712911730 (OP)
Gamefly still exists. Somehow.

>>712911985
Don't need to when you have Nintendo Power letting you know which games should be avoided

>>712912046
Nintendo power don't tell you about weird uncommon japanese games, just what had in AMURRICA.
I played Akumajou special: Boku dracula kun as a kid, and you didn't.

>>712911730 (OP)
true
also games make way more money than they did before.

>>712912145
When 70% of the cost of the game is on the ROM chip, the actual profit margin is pretty slim.

>>712911730 (OP)
You still rent games, what do you think Game Pass is?
The difference is that Game Pass costs about the same as renting two or three games in the past, but you have access to hundreds of them.
The price of Game Pass for game rentals is completely insane, and Microsoft is definitely not making a profit as a service and is just throwing money away trying to make Netflix-style digital rentals viable in order to kill the competition that is selling digital licenses.

Nobody rents games anymore because renting is for losers

You still have rental services though, that's literally what gamepass is (and why it's considered a meme)

>>712911730 (OP)
>Rentcucks
Brown.

>>712912283
>giving all your data to Microsoft
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Retard

>>712912358
>>712912283
Indeed.

>>712911730 (OP)
Just like you're still renting games.

>>712912475
>He says on his windows pc
Also

>MUH DATA
What data retard? You do realize a console ecosystem is closed right? there's no "data" to take because what ARE you gonna take? May as well say Sony and nintendo are stealing your data too

>>712912208
arent like half of video game sales digital now tho? and even then are cartridges and blu rays that expensive?

>>712912621
Blurays are very cheap, but cartridges are still a bit salty, which is why nintendo did the key card slop.

>>712912283
>>712912358
>pay subscription
>have access to trash library

versus

>pay to rent one game
>get game you actually want to play

>>712911730 (OP)
>The game industry managed to largely stamp that out now
What's this?

>>712913114
It's pretty close, but the downside is on the post above yours.

>>712912475
You had to do the same shit to sign up for a Blockbuster card, kiddo.

>>712913192
Every major game is on Gamepass now. Literally all of them.

>>712911730 (OP)
Not just rental, the used market was also way more attainable. Sure, I might only get 1 new game at Xmas but i could also get my mom to throw down $5-10 for a used cart pretty much year round.

>>712911730 (OP)
Renting games Is still around. They just call it gamepass now and you get a month for 15 instead of a weekend for 5

>>712912687
i think that the keycard is great, actually. most devs wouldve just shipped digital codes if key cards didnt exist. at least you can resell and lend these

>>712912283
I had a co-worker ask me the other day why something on game pass disappeared when he was still paying for the service and I didn't have the heart to explain to this poor boomer that he doesn't own shit with a system like that and they can delist whatever they feel like in a heartbeat

Gamepass is soulless it doesn't compare to going to a rental store

>>712914293
I do too, there's still the same problem of "when nintendo cuts off the server, they stop working", but i imagine that a passive server like that is a lot cheaper to keep around than a shop, which is probably how you still can download the games you bought in dead nintendo stores.

>>712911730 (OP)
Good point.

>>712911730 (OP)
I owned plenty of NES games
I also rented plenty of NES games
And my parents weren't rich
Also swapped games with friends

>>712911730 (OP)
you wouldn't be able to do this today with so many non-whites in the current society, the stores would be at loss in 30 days because nobody would return them.

>>712912453
retarded zoomer

>>712915496
Also a good point.

>>712911730 (OP)
>Back then people just rented games.
You rented them if they were quick games that could be beaten in a week, otherwise you were renting them to test out and see if they were fun enough to play more than once.

>>712916905
Yep.
And that filtered the fuck out of bad games.

>>712911730 (OP)
Games were never $90's. Idk what fucking retarded shit people are trying to spread to justify spending 100+ for switch 2 games but anyone with a single braincell should understand how fucking retarded saying that games used to be 90 is.

>>712917261
N64 games and games with special chips did got to 70,80$

>>712917261
They were 90* in some obscure canadian catalog that people like to spread around online to troll people into thinking games used to be SO expensive.
Some games certainly were, but here is the thing, it wasn't MSRP. Games like Super Mario 3 in the US, at some EB games or Toy's R Us would be up for 80 bucks, when it was suggested at 50. This was because many retailers were still uncomfortable with the video game market and wanted to try to recoup losses when they thought the demand was still high. The games would go down to MSRP within 2 months. Then Blockbuster happened, game rentals made things hard for retailers, with them realizing that they couldn't charge huge prices for games in the first few months. They kept things to MSRP. Game rentals were needed to keep retailers honest and that led to greater sales overall.

>>712917773
Because we knew for a fact that they were more expensive to manufacturer and in an inordinate amount. Meanwhile, playstation games were 40-50 dollars. Which was part of the reason for the domination of the market. It wouldn't take long before games went on sale either. The problem these days is simply that Nintendo thinks their games are forever and refuses to let them go on sale, as a sale damages their brand value (retarded shit that Miyamoto has been pushing). So while they are using new tech that is expensive, the tech doesn't STAY expensive and will quickly lower in cost year after year, but they will keep the prices high, for no reason

>>712911730 (OP)
>Back then!
>I know it!
Just like, "today, people just PIRATE games!"
?

>>712911730 (OP)
t. born this century