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game rentals have their place
Mostly only because games are so expensive when they don't have to be.
Just be thankful they haven't followed inflation of both the value of money, and their budgets. A $40 NES game would be $120 in todays money and it was probably made in a month by three people in a shed, meanwhile something like CoD Black Ops Cold War credits over 9000 people and had a budget of $700 million. GTA 6 has already blown past a billion.
In fact, video games are currently pretty much the cheapest they've ever been, comparatively speaking.
bootlickers and corpos always roll out this argument while ignoring the growth in players meaning you get more sales
Yep, that's why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.
Most games today are cross platform and sell substantially more copies that old console games. Mega Man 3 for example sold just over 1 million copies and was a great success. GTA V, crossplatform AAA, sold almost a quarter of a billion copies.