| NightDragon83 said: Bottom line is this... consoles were cheaper in the early-mid 90s than today even after inflation (plus you got two controllers and a pack-in AAA game for $199 or less for both the SNES and Genesis back in the day), but software was much, MUCH more expensive even without adjusting for inflation, mainly due to the lack of MSRP standards in the industry at the time...
Look at the price of Genesis games in this consumer catlog circa '91... those aren't misprints: $98.88 for both Toe Jam & Earl and Strider. Check out these NES prices from the same year...
Who's up for paying $65 for Mario 3, The Little Mermaid, the original Final Fantasy and Star Tropics??? |
Indeed, but as games are generally a multi-time purchase per platform, and the console a one time (hopefully) purchase, as a whole, gaming in the past was substantially more expensive than it is today.
This video clip says it all..
Kid shows off his NES collection, at the time it was supposed to be jaw dropping how many he has (97 nes games), in this day and age someone having 97 games is like "lol is that all?"
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