I found this old ad for the Nintendo 64 from the 90s. This was the console I spent most of my childhood playing. Most video games today start out at $60. When I was a kid they started at $50. A $10 price increase isn’t much but the Nintendo switch console today costs about $300. So the Nintendo 64 console costed you the price of less than 3 games while the Nintendo switch console costs you the price of about 5 games. Video games have done pretty well to resist inflation.
What'd ya do with the console?
Still have it in my closet 😂
People complain about how much games cost today (me included), but looking back, games are so cheap today. The SNES was my console, and I think games were about $60 when they released, some near $70, that's about $130 in today's dollars.
Yeah I was thinking about this. The only question I had was if they are actually complete games? Most games have DLC and require updates and maintenance. I think the fact that they can ship a game out and then patch it later if bugs pop up saves them a lot of money testing the game. They let the users test the game and then patch it quickly. It’s impressive how they’ve optimized this side of the business
I think the dev teams were much smaller then and they could turn around games faster, so cheaper to develop for, but you had a smaller pool of gamers to buy the game compared to now.
I think you're right though, they probably make up some of the difference with DLC, Season Passes, skins, etc.. Its definitely a different world.
Yeah I wonder how much cheaper it would be today without fiat
