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87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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There's such a weird attitude around release of old material. Why can't Disney+ show the star wars theatrical release? Why won't Nintendo sell their old titles? The only possible outcome is that people get what they want and give the company cash. It's bizarre.
Disney, at least back in the VHS, and (probably early) DVD days, would purposefully keep their titles in the "vault" and only release a handful of titles at a time for a limited time window.
What it did was create artificial scarcity, and when they put out an "anniversary edition" of Cinderella or whatever, they cashed in.
I remember. It became a less reasonable structure with the advent of digital piracy though, and it's just nonsensical nowm
It wouldn't surprise me if Lucas didn't specify Disney agreeing to not releasing the theatrical cuts as a stipulation of the sale. He's been trying to bury those since the beginning. Last I heard he claimed they were too damaged to release.
Didn't the theatrical cuts release with the first DVD sets well before the takeover? (Albeit yeah, that's 480p.)
They did, they're a special feature on the 2008 Limited Edition dvd trilogy.