Isn’t it then fair that a company charges 20k instead of 400? Since it’s so much more work.

It’s wonderful to see capitalism work so well. First you sell cheap to create vendor lock-in and undercut your competition.

Then once you have a monopoly, you hike up the price. Until a government authority comes along and introduces state sponsored competition or declares you “too big to fail”.

Rinse and repeat.

EDIT:

Being downvoted for stating the obvious is fairly typical for HN.

Too many folks here have a mental disconnect between their earnings (stocks in large for-profit tech companies) and complaining when their favourite game maker has to fork out more money to supply the profit for said large tech company.

You can't have it both ways. You can't pretend it's unfair when smaller, non-greedy companies get squeezed out by behemoth companies that are forced to increase their earnings, else their stock owners will complain and the share value will drop.

If you're going to downvote my comment, then please also point out where my thinking is off. All I did was describe how capitalism works and the consequences thereof.