Wagram said:
Darc Requiem said:
No you are because you are talking out of your ass. You know why games costs were so high for NES, SNES, and Genesis games? Cartridges. Developers were playing $20 to $30 per cartridge, versus $1 or less they pay for optical media. Hence the $60, $70, and some times even higher priced games. Games like Virtua Racing for Genesis had an expensive DSP, the SVP chip, that was added into the cost as well. Sure Nintendo and Sega could charge $50 for cartridge games but they didn't have to pay the licensing fees that third party developers had to. Yup on top of the high cartridge costs, 3rd party had to play a licensing fee. So you have cartridge costs and licensing fees plus the retailer has to get their cut. License fees and media cost are much cheaper now than they were then. Games were justifiably more expensive during the cartridge era.
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Justifiiably over priced.
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Ah yes, the one line response. An attempt to refute an argument with little to no facts. I've dismissed this claim.
@Mr. Fister
You bring up a couple of good points. I agree with them both.
