Sizing up Wii U's price tag against history~ How should it turn out?

[DaRev]

HappySqurriel said:

DaRev said:
Seems like my response disappeared.

Anyways, essentially, if a console was to be released today and do what the Neo Geo did back in its day, then we would be paying $1000.00plus for such a console. As Neo Geo logo said “The Future is Now”

To a certain extent the Neo Geo's $650 price tag was (probably) far more reasonable than a $1200 console would be today ...

My father regularly talks about how the first computer he bought my family cost more than $5000 and (with inflation taken into account) that is close to $10,000 in today's dollars.  A $600 console almost seems reasonable in a world where a cheap PC is $2500.

Yep, as technology progresses things get cheaper. I remember my first PC in about 1993 we bought for $3000. I would never spend half that much on a PC today.