I wonder if there would have been much piracy of games if you would have been able to buy the game diskette(s), box, manual for $5.99. I find it hard to believe that it would have cost 'that' much to produce even for back then.
How often haven't you bought a game, blown 40-50 bucks on one just to get disappointed, right?! Who decided that it was a fair price to charge?
Commodore allegedly sold 30 million C64 units. The buyers for software then most certainly were available.
I understand that it cost a lot of money for a software distributor to manufacture games for the whole world. However, isn't that why the software developers would go to a software distributor?
Then why was it so hard to distribute games back then? Plenty of European games never made it to the U.S. market. The same goes for the games out of Japan. Also, not many stores bothered to sell games from what I remember.
There should have been a rack with games in each convenience store and some vendor coming by every three weeks restocking.
