• panchzila@lemmy.world
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        11 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.

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      11 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.