[Analemma_]

That hasn’t been happening since the beginning of video games and it isn’t about to start now. Adjusted for inflation the NES was about $590 at launch and individual games were $90-120. Didn’t stop it from nearly wiping the American video game industry clean off the earth.

[toast0]

To be fair, the American video game industry had pretty well wiped itself off the earth. Nintendo came in and actively worked to present itself as different and did a fair bit of anti-competitive stuff once it got market power: can't release the same game on other platforms, limited release count per developer, strict cartridge hardware controls, etc.