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irstupid on 28 July 2014
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Tamron said:
irstupid said:

Doesn't matter how rudimentary the controller were back then, they still cost $X amount to make.

I guarantee they are marking up the controllers price MORE today than they did back then.  IF they made $15 profit a controller back then.  They are probably making $30 profit a controller today.  They are marking the controllers up more.  

Cost of production has increased, profit from controller sales has more or less stayed the same because of the cost of components and production, and because back in 1996, manufacturing costs were higher for what would now be much cheaper to make.

irstupid said:

And bring up inflation all  you want.  There are millions of gamers that have DEAD-END jobs and these increased prices they notice.  I highly doubt people making $50,000+ a year give a shit about the price of gaming.  

Yes but you see, much like you yourself have admitted, the people of today complaining about the increased prices, were not working and buying consoles in 1996.

The people that were, understand completely. The whole issue complaining about prices and failing, completely, to understand WHY they're numerically higher, but not actually financially higher, are almost always people who were not the ones paying the money out in the days of the PS1/N64, after all, you don't feel the impact in your wallet if Santa brought you it on christmas day.

What you need to grasp is, regardless of whether or not people accept that the prices have actually fallen either because they have dead end jobs or because they can't get their heads around the concept of inflation, the facts clearly show that they have.

If you can, without pointing at 'dead end jobs', show me a gamer that was working and paying for their consoles in 1996, that is working the same job today, and being paid the exact same as they were in 1996, and you'll have a point, until then you don't.

If you have to point towards dead end jobs to get your point across, you're completely ignoring the very reason they are called dead end jobs.

Your the one who refered to them as dead-end jobs.

I brought them up because they represented high-school and college kids wages.  Most high-school and College kids make roughly $10/hr if they have a job or less.  Are they not gamers? Are they not the ones buying consoles.  I bought the Wii, 360 and PS3 when I was in college and was only making $10/hr when I was working.

My cousins as I said currently make the same and they need to buy a PS4 or some other system/s of choice.  

It's not the largest year span being only like 10 years.  But I asked older lifeguards when i started and it had been $10/hr for as long as theyr emember, so i'm assuming for a long time typical HS/College kids make roughly that.  And thus those aged kids BUYING consoles from N64 era had to also save up money.  They only had to work 20-30 hours, versus todays kid having to work 30-40 hours depending on the console of choice.  

I'm not talking about dead end job guys who have been working at Walmart for 40 years.  I'm talking about an AGE group of people who when they are 16-22 they are making like $10/hr.  To them the console price has increased, games have increased, controllers have increased, online gaming, ect.  All new prices or more.  

Sure those teenagers grow up and make real money later on, but that age demographic (which most seem to equate to gamers) are stuck at the measly $10/hr paygrade.