Thirty-six years of console prices adjusted for inflation.
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It is kind of funny that people seem to think that the price of consoles seems to be going way up.
Wow, my big brother must of loved us younger kids, he bought us an Atari for Christmas one year with a few games too!! LOL, I remember him coming to visit and playing the tennis game with me and he wasn't familiar with it at all and didn't notice I set him up to play against the computer and I just pretended to play. He just kept saying, "Wow, your good!" Ha ha!!
The Atari was awesome for its time. My great grandmother (in her 80s at the time) used to love playing the bowling game. I thought we were hot s*** when we got the Empire Strikes Back game, too. Great times abounded.
Same here, none of our friends had one so they were always over our house playing it. Have a lot of good memories of those days!
The Dreamcast had a great price considering how awesome it was.
NES $412
SNES $332
N64 $289
GC $259
Wii $284
Wii U $300
After years of releasing cheaper and cheaper systems, now they are inching up. And for Nintendo systems price has zero effect. The success of a Nintendo system is definitely outside factors. Aside from Wii U which just started, the worst selling system GC is also the cheapest.
SNES $332
N64 $289
GC $259
Wii $284
Wii U $300
After years of releasing cheaper and cheaper systems, now they are inching up. And for Nintendo systems price has zero effect. The success of a Nintendo system is definitely outside factors. Aside from Wii U which just started, the worst selling system GC is also the cheapest.
Funny stuff thinking back on those machines considering what they were actually capable of doing.
Yup. I have fond memories of talking my mother into importing it and the amount of chores and housework I did that summer.
Well, not including PS4, they've gone up more than any other console since 1996. So yeah, they kinda have been going up for the most part. I mean, out of 24 consoles listed, the Xb1 is more expensive than 17 of them.....only 6 of them are more expensive.
Tack on the slick marketing move of charging for internet connections (even though optional), and we see how expensive they've made consoles now.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I was young when I got my Atari 2600. It was a gift both from my parents and grandparents. Looking back, that was a lot of money for them.
I still remember my Coleco fondly too as you could get the Atari adapter and play the old 2600 games and of course Coleco ones too.
NES was my first system I remember, but I think my brother had one of the other earlier systems. I remember finding it in the attic once but looking at the pics I'm not sure which one it would have been.
I've never been a person that thought consoles were worth what they are asking at launch, but I really think ps4/xb1 are, ps4 has decent power for the price and slew of games coming, and the xb1 is really fun to use and has a great variety of launch games I'm having a blast with and can see myself playing for awhile.
Gamers complain now, but the Intelli we had was $400 (Canada), converted make that a solid $1,000+. LOL. Only in the past maybe 10 years tops have console gaming been about parity between Canada and the US. Anything before that and a game cost $10+ more and a console could be $50+ more.
PS1 and PS2 games were typically $60 in Canada while I think the US was $50.
Genesis/SNES carts launched at about $80, but then trickled down to often $60-70 new later on. Some games like battery back up Phantasy Star II were $120 and often the SNES game of a multiplat might be $5-10 more than Genesis (probably due to the cart size). SFII was $90 as I remember grabbing it..... well worth it! I remember gaming mags saying US cartridges were about $50-60.
Not sure about US pricing of NES games, but they were usually $50-55 here. Some were $60-70 (Bases Loaded was $69.99... I bought it), but then some were cheaper at $40-ish (I think the Nintendo first party games)
I still remember buying Intelli games with my brothers for $40-50 Cdn. That would convert to $100+ now. LOL
