The production and distribution costs of those cartridges are pennies in the bucket compared to the actual development costs, there's a reason the switch to digital hasn't really impacted the cost of games meaningfully.
Hasn't it? Thats a lot of store space and said store takes a cut of the profits to hold their items and sell them. You also get shipping costs and a bunch of logistics costs. More impulse buys.
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u/hiddenpoint 1d ago
The production and distribution costs of those cartridges are pennies in the bucket compared to the actual development costs, there's a reason the switch to digital hasn't really impacted the cost of games meaningfully.