When did it become socially accepted for new consoles to cost an arm and a leg...

When did it become socially accepted for new consoles to cost an arm and a leg, especially when games perform just as well on a 5 year old hardware?

god it must fucking suck to be poor

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I don't have the exact numbers but I'm 100% sure that $199 during the 90's is something to about $400 today. Learn basic economics before you speak.

$199.99 in 1997 had the same buying power as $304.44 in 2017.
Annual inflation over this period was about 2.12%
And I didn't add the extra controller, games, or accessories.
www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm

Economy you dumb fuck.

You are fucking dumb. Delete your post before someone sees how stupid you are.

Interestingly enough games are getting much bigger discounts today than back then, even for ( non-Nintendo ) consoles.

I make a healthy income, but I don't believe in capitalism.

Around the same time dum-dum's started paying twice for their internet

When Playstation was new, it was $299.99, not $199.99. That's $480 with inflation.

>thinking you are entitled to access their servers
You funny goy.

>Oh shit, I'm dumb. Delete your post before someone sees how dumb I am.
fixed that for you

>Jet Moto
I don't know who the fuck thought a racing game with Jet skis was a good idea, but I loved that game. Mountain Dew racer for life.

How to be a hypocrite in one sentence

>I don't believe in capitalism.
>I have a well paying job
What do you do user?

Yes, it does. I guess that means I can't be allowed to play video games.

man im gonna break out my ps1 over the weekend, just went through my game book for it, got some CLASSICS BOIS

>bitching about hardware prices
>ignoring the video game prices
You are fucking dumb and you like to complain you fucking retard.

>$300 for a console
>$70 for a game
The 1990s sucked in hindsight.

nice brah, whats some of those classics?

>$500 for a console
>$60+$120 in DLC for a game
The 2010s sucked in hindsight.

That explains why you don't know what inflation is.

You are allowed to accept the situation and do something about it. Clearly spending money on vidya is not something you should do. Go play ASCII roguelikes or other retro games. They are good games as well.

>everything was cheaper back then in absolute number
OP is a baby boomer.

>The 2010s sucked in hindsight.
Fuck off with your blue phone box.

I believe in reasonably saving my earnings instead of tossing towards someone after seconds of them releasing a shiny new product. If the pricing is unfair, I won't support the product.

>do something about it
Clearly everyone in the world is destined to be successful if they work hard enough.
It must be nice living in a rich country.

>$3000 for a PC
>$50-100 for a game
>Only an Olympic weight lifter had the fortitude and strength to cart multiple crts and towers to and from a LAN

The 1990s were fucking rad in hindsight and I miss them dearly.

This is the dumbest fucking thing I ever read all week.
Please take an economics course before procreating.

>>Only an Olympic weight lifter had the fortitude and strength to cart multiple crts and towers to and from a LAN
Everyone was bulking in the 1990s with the heavy home entertainment equipment, laptops and Nokia phones. Nowadays everyone is a skinny skeltal who needs to go to the gym in order not to suffer from amyotrophia because shit doesn't weigh anything anymore.

ps1 was cutting edge AS FUCK when it was released. you know that enthusiast gamer kid on the block? he got a fuckin' PLAYSTATION. that thing uses fuckin COMPACT DISC son. COMPACT FUCKIN DISCS. this was during a time where VHS are still widely used just go watch Seinfeld.

$47.99 in 1994 translates to $75.48 in 2017. Most games released today are $60.00. You do not know what inflation is.

There's been real life Jet Ski racing for a long time, since at least the late 70's. We don't yet have hoverbike racing, though.

>healthy income
That's a euphemism for welfare money.

Yeah, same. I don't get people who instantly spend all their money once they recieve them on their payday. Or using their credit cards constantly and living in debt.

ATTACK OF THE PAST

>I believe in reasonably saving my earnings
That's a euphemism for being poor.

>Destruction Derby 2

God that game was so good.

>music CD on PS1 side
Some things never change.

Yes it was, it makes me sad to see so many of these dead franchises.

kek

PS1 HAS NO FUCKING GAMES

>drawing circles around shit you want in catalogs
Good childhood.

Shit feels really strange knowing kids don't do this anymore. Makes me feel old.

>Diddy Kong Racing
>$49
>The older Mario Kart 64
>$59

God Nintendo are scum. The Activision of the 90's, and now even too.

Nintendo under Yamauchi was fucking vile. They were being investigated for scummy shit, and their peripherals have always been obscenely overpriced.

Do kids still obsess and lovingly spend months saving up for the 1-2 games they want each year, pawing over catalogs waiting for a good price, absorbing as much info from random magazines at the newsagent etc?

Or do they all get like 100 bucks a week pocket money and blow it all on in-app purchases for f2p shit?

nostalgia thread?

What the fuck are those prices for real?

>Proprietary memory

Sonuggets will defend this

Yup, prices are real. What's so upsetting about them?

I loved how fucking racy these were back in the day.

Yeah your right game were using cartridges for 20 years up to that point. Plus a cd player costs back then what $200 $250, so might has well buy something that can play both things right?

PS2 was $299 at release, $49 for games and $34 for a fucking 8mb memory card.

There was barely any competition besides the big three, so they could really push it.

Still want to print and frame this kino piece

Probably Australian prices or some other third world shit hole.

I remember paying over 100 ausbucks for my Turok 2 special edition as a kid.

The XXL T-shirt it came with went down to my ankles, I use to run around the house wearing nothing else, shit was awesome.

There were third party memcards for 15$ you nigglet.

my nephew dont play consoleshit. all kids play their games on smartphones these days

Well, here in the U.S. Earthbound and Chrono Trigger were $90.

That whole game was fucking kino, makes me sad as fuck that it's been such a spotty series since.

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$49 retail price.

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That makes sense if those prices are in non-US dollars. But still
>Bass Masters being one of the most expensive games

God damn, maybe shit wasn't all that bad here after all. Although I still ended up getting most of my stuff second hand from Blockbuster etc

This makes me sad.

Just think, a body like this is in it's 50s now.

>>>>MMMMMMUHHHH INFLATION!!!!!1111111

FUCK

Don't say shit like that.

Goddamn, Armored Core 2 was the shit. I loved the Moonlight Blade sword.

My nephew just watches Let's Plays on his Wii U. What the fuck?

Is Derek Smart the most resilient man on earth?

that 2 dollar game demo pack probably has more game time than current full price AAA game.

The magazine's so old FFT is a fucking preview.

Hi Oldman 40up faggot

Can I buy you a beer and let's talk about our good old days in '70

>yfw you realise the shareware version of Doom is longer than any COD game released to date.

It always baffles me that you guys got such an ugly design.

That's not hard to do. Even "short" games in the past are longer than the average COD game.

Money inflation among other shit.
It must be nice to live on mommy's credit card.

>Ghost in the Shell game

God I remember playing the demo of that. Was the game actually good?

I just remember the opening cutscene of the demo had titties in it.

Blame fucking NoA. When I found out what other countries' SNES looked like, I'd cringe when I looked at my own.

It was great, also the ps2 GITS game is also a pretty great shooter.

First game with 16:9 tv option on the fly
Play with Victor (JVC) musea flat telly 28" so fabulous

Jesus Christ, this is the first Dynasty Warriors!?

32 MEGS OF DONG

Nintendo thought Americans wouldn't buy a (Super) Famicom if it looked too much like a kid's toy, which is why they were renamed "Entertainment Systems" and were styled after a VCR or Hi-Fi equipment.

>$60 for new games
>in the fucking 90's

Wow, I guess things really aren't that bad today. The only leg-up in modern gaming is that the $60-70 for a game today doesn't include the minimum $20 of DLC.

>arent that bad today

Compare what you used to get back then and what you get now for those 60 dollars.

You didn't finish games in a single afternoon then.

Quote from Lance Barr who did the redesign
>The Super Famicom was maybe okay for the market in Japan. For the US, I felt that it was too soft and had no edge. We were always looking at future modular components (even the NES had a connector on the bottom), so you had to design with the idea of stacking on top of other components. I though the Super Famicom didn't look good when stacked and even by itself, had a kind of "bag of bread" look.

You have to remember $60-$70 today is like how video games in the early 2000s were $40-$50. It's still fair pricing, despite the larger number.

>no edge

wooooooooooooooooooow

When Sonybros bought the PS3 for 600$

>You didn't finish games in a single afternoon then.
My copy of the SNES Chester Cheetah game said other wise.

Fuck, this makes me wish when games had content for you to keep fucking around with it until you found it. Now, they replace gameplay with achievements.

In mid 80 and 90 buy new game console with heart beat
Like future is here in my hand
PS1 not that expensive when compared with console in the same era like
3DO a good console and have prono graphics games to buy with ultra expensive price
Shit Atari Jaguar that nobody buy
Laser active from Pioneer .. nobody buy
Neogeo CD too fucking slow with 1X cdrom .. that some body buy because Neogeo rom base with eyes watering price nobody effort that price.

Sony is cheaper if you not count Super famicom that about to die

So does your shit taste.

>when Ausbros bought it for $999

I don't think i've ever seen so many of my friends be so disappointed in a console, the PS3's library was fucking great by the end, but holy shit those early days and that price point was some grim shit.

I apologize for being a dumb 5 year old.

Well, don't you sound like the most pretentious, self-righteous cunt?

That's blatantly untrue lol. At best it depends on the game.

Sure, you can blow through the latest FPS in 6 hours. On the other hand I'm 25 hours into Final Fantasy XV and I just got to chapter 4.

Anyway, how did I know this argument was going to be one of the replies to my post.

>FFXV
>literally tilt stick up and keep holding it for 100 hours to beat the game: the game

nigger you are not helping your cause