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DroidKnight said:

crissindahouse said:

depends if you want gaming as mainstream thing for the whole planet or like in the 80s for some rich white kids. 

We could obviously go back to only 1/5 or even worse number of gamers like in the 80s

I grew up in the 80's.

I am brown.

I mowed lawns, washed cars, hoed in cotton fields, collected and sold aluminum cans all at the ages 7-14 for my video games, game consoles, school supplies, and school clothing.  

Gaming did very well in the 80s.  

So you had to do a lot to have money for an expensive hobby in the 80s. How does this counter anything I've said? I've mentioned rich white kids because they didn't have to wash cars as much. I never had to wash cars to get a game as kid. I just asked my father. That was my point (not that my family was rich but definitely above German average)

I'm also not saying that the industry didn't have a nice revenue in the 80s. But they reached that with higher prices. Now we have lower prices but more players. We can go back to less players but higher prices. That's what this argument was about after all. 

It's like comparing Nike with Luis Vuitton (exaggerated). Both have nice revenue numbers but more people can enjoy Nike lol. Doesn't mean that only one way works to sell your products. Just the amount of people who can enjoy it will be different. 

Last edited by crissindahouse - on 02 April 2025