• teamevil@lemmy.world
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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.