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crissindahouse on 22 December 2011
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Play4Fun said:
crissindahouse said:
Play4Fun said:
sethnintendo said:
A home video game console launch price shall never be over $400 USD.


Fixed that for you.


what shit is that? so in 100 years people earn 20k per month on average but the console shall still have this price? oh yeah what a hell of a machine this will be, hourly for a worker in that company producing the consle is more than that price lol.

spending thousands of dollars for games/controllers/tv's but crying if they have to pay 100 more for a console to get a better one how i will never understand this...

For  the last time, consoles aren't PCs.

Deal with it.

You want to spend big bucks on gaming hardware? Go ahead and get your gaming PC.

Meanwhile, consoles should stay consumer friendly as they are meant to be.

End of story.

no, not end of story. it just makes no sense what you say. it's irrelevant if a console isn't a gaming pc, apple or car. we all earn more every year for our work (on average ~3% in germany for example over the last 10 years) every company has to pay more for energy, workers and everything.

when the last console did cost $400 than 8 years later $500 one generation later isn't more consumer unfriendly. if i take the 3% loan increase every year this means we get ~27% more loan on average when the next gen starts. so 400x1.27=508. if you people have a problem with logic ok, but this doesn't make your statement more true

i have a great gamer pc but that doesn't mean that i wish to have a shit console because noone wants to pay more for a console forgetting inflation and increased income.

for example, many buy a $200 console for their children for christmas. they did this 10 years ago and now they still won't pay $50 more for their child even wit $500 more per month income? this would mean they pay less for the same but no way this is so unfair lol

why shouldn't i give my son more pocket money than my father gave me? i get 50% more money for the same job than he got 15 years ago. but he payed me a $200 console (which was consumer friendly) and it wouldn't be consumer friendly for me to pay $300 for a console nowadays? not to talk about game prices which didn't rise so even then, gaming is a huge amount less expensive than last gen compared to our income.

so for me, i hope console prices will increas every gen like $50 whic will still make it less expensive for me but the console won't be crap.

so as conslusion:

no, i won't pay "big bucks" for gaming hardware, i just have no problem to pay the same percentual amount of my icome for every gen. nowadays i pay much less than last gens which is cool but i don't have to pay less every gen compared to my income until to the point when i pay only 0.001% of my income for gaming which would be the case for some generations behind us with your logic and you would still say "$500 bucks is big money" in year 2150? yeah sure..