• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Apples and Onions. Not even close to the same situation, since we don’t rely on physical copies anymore, and the physical copies that are produces are such a limited run that they are basically collectors items or data archivist / ownership enthusiast items.

    Also that crash only really affected the US. The gaming market as a whole just kind of absorbed the losses, and got stronger for the video game comeback in 1986 in the US.