HappySqurriel on 24 September 2007
| Legend11 said: The Atari ST and Amiga could be compared to expensive videogame consoles of today (and previous generations) and would have eventually come down in price. The Commodore 64 could be compared to the PS2 in that it was immensely successful and attracted a wide range of gamers both because of it's price and library of games. |
I'm not so sure they would have ...
Many of these companies were releasing their hardware at $1,000 to $1,500 as an affordable PC, slowly reducing their prices to about $500 to $750 and then replacing them with their next version of their system for $1,000 to $1,500.
The NES was unconventional for its time because it was underpowered, stable hardware which was released at a mass market price and wasn't replaced for a long time (in comparision to their competition).
