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“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's honestly shocking to me looking back that we were able to afford new games back then. I saved up literal pennies to buy SMB3. The lady at Toys R Us was visibly pissed at me, and more pissed at my mom for letting me pay that way. We weren't rich, though we were slightly above the middle of middle class. But even my lower middle class friends could afford to buy video games back then.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Conversely, games had little to no resale value back then despite self-evidently coming with the entire contents right there on the cartridge. Basically everything in my NES library when I was a kid except, perhaps ironically, SMB3 came from yard sales and so forth where I bought them for a quarter or fifty cents or whatever.

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