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Technological Tying in Video Game Consoles by Tanesha Welch is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes a research paper that analyzes the impact of technological tying on video game console price competition. The paper uses data from the 128-bit video game industry to estimate demand and supply models. Through counterfactual simulations, it finds that when console makers tie their integrated games to their hardware, it surprisingly increases console price competition. This is because console makers subsidize consumers to increase console and game sales, where most industry profits co

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Tanesha Welch

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