I remember seeing casino or slot machine games being released in the era of the PS2 on consoles. You could play all you wanted until you got bored, with no limi

I remember seeing casino or slot machine games being released in the era of the PS2 on consoles. You could play all you wanted until you got bored, with no limits. This kind of game would never be released again today. I'm convinced that the only reason there was no monetization in those games was because it was technically infeasible with no persistent online presence tied to a store account, and no way to get the user's attention outside of the confines of their house, connected to a television. I believe that if there had been some way of extracting more money from users even sooner than the smartphone had been invented, it would have been done. The smartphone was so revolutionary it opened up all of those new avenues, and the monetization models have even reached consoles now that it's been well established that the people that use smartphones will buy into them.