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I agree with you. Remember that this was a time of rapid improvement in computing hardware, and these were devices marketed to kids in family rooms.

That hardware cost inefficiency is a big reason cartridges lost to discs. (and, later, downloads)

Interestingly, modern GPUs are also sold bundled with the games that run best on them!

> That hardware cost inefficiency is a big reason cartridges lost to discs. (and, later, downloads)

Yet we're still expected to pay the same prices we were paying back then - even more in some cases.

Inflation adjusted you're paying far less. (NES games went for about $50, which is around $120 now).

Something that cost $50 in 1993 would cost $87.74 now, according to the Consumer Price Index inflation calculators.

NES launched in the US in 1986. Super NES was released in US in 1991.