irstupid said:
Yes but one coudl argue that each of those components in a controller have decreased over the years. Just as someone showed a 32 mb hard-drive cost 3,500 back in the day and now you can buy a much smaller 1 tb hard-drive for $100. Wireless tech and other features in a controller should and have decreased over the years. |
Except you can't, because previous controllers do not use the same tech as current gen controllers, if inflation continues (and it most likely will), then next generation, should the controllers remain the same price as current generation controllers, then they technically will be cheaper.
In 1996, a second, digital-only PS1 controller was $24.99, after inflation to 2013 is applied, that becomes $36.65, a new PS4 controller costs $59.99, an increase of $23.34, while also adding: full axis motion sensors, charge IC, bluetooth IC and RX/TX, several multi phase LED's, Li-On battery, rumble motors, touch pad, analog sticks, analog triggers, charge port and power management IC. which greatly increases the overall cost of components, the controllers of old were as simple and cheap as they could ever get, with a single PCB containing little more than a series of gated pad switches.
Tech evolving and becoming faster, for example the increase of a CPU speed and the production cost of the component decreasing are not the same as components being added entirely.
Look at it this way, if you have a cheap stereo that cost $19 in 1996, that same stereo would cost $10 or less now, but a stereo with a built in digital TV will cost more than $19, because it contains not only updated components from the 1996 version, but new components entirely.
