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87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games (gamehistory.org)

submitted 1 year ago by audaxdreik@pawb.social to c/gaming

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[–] prole 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Disney, at least back in the VHS, and (probably early) DVD days, would purposefully keep their titles in the "vault" and only release a handful of titles at a time for a limited time window.

What it did was create artificial scarcity, and when they put out an "anniversary edition" of Cinderella or whatever, they cashed in.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 8 points 1 year ago

I remember. It became a less reasonable structure with the advent of digital piracy though, and it's just nonsensical nowm