The Chad hacker writing 3 games per month vs Virgin Programmer building a 10 year old pyramid by

"The Chad hacker writing 3 games per month" vs "Virgin Programmer building a 10 year old pyramid by himself".

>>7
Nope. It is the other way around: using NES sprite hardware is orders of magnitude cheaper and easier than the latest 3d engines, together with numerous software packages required to produce assets. Today just the WinMain function would be larger and more complicated than a NES game.

>>8
Also, at the time of NES, there were no repositories and everything was done by a few programmers, working on discrete modules. Today you have 100 member teams, and it is really hard to organize them.