Source?

It also required expensive ROM chips and cartridge assembly and came in a full color box with a full color manual.

Digital games don’t come with anything and don’t cost anything to ship.

Not to mention that salaries have absolutely not kept up with inflation so it’s not like that money is going to the developers.

One of the expressed reasons for cutting funding to PBS and NPR (via the Corp. for Public Broadcasting) is because they can’t influence what is being said by those entities.