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This video game analogy seems downright weird to me.
The original Super Mario Bros., which came out way back in 1985, went on to sell over 40 million copies.
Folks, that is as mainstream as it gets!
So where is this complete and utter myth coming from that video gaming only recently went mainstream? Video gaming has been mainstream since the mid-80s!
The only difference is demographics - It's largely shifted from being mainstream with kids to being mainstream with adults. But in any event, video gaming has been pretty consistently mainstream from the mid-80s until the modern day.
Yes, Hollywood-sized budgets may well end up killing the entire video game industry. But that has nothing to do with video gaming being mainstream. Video gaming was mainstream decades before video games gained Hollywood-sized budgets.
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