"So according to you inflation is responsable for consoles going from $200-$300 to $400-$600 in just five years. Great, I'd love to see some evidence for that. I guess that's why a typical family car in the $18,000 range five years ago now costs $36,000? LOL!!! I'm afraid this inflation you speak must only affect gaming as I don't see it anywhere else in the form of prices literally doubling in half a decade."
The Saturn debuted at $399 back in 1995. That was supposed to be a mainstream console. It was only when Sony announced $299 for the PS1 at E3 that Sega went into a furor claiming Sony was product dumping at that price.
As for that $600 initial price for the PS3, I don't see how anyone realistically expected them to fly off retailer's shelves at that price, even if it had been accompanied by a stellar initial game catalog.
But no, inflation hasn't been the source of generally higher console prices; the increasing complexity, cost of manufacturing and R&D budgets have been. Everyone knows the U.S. dollar has become the new peso as of late, but it's nowhere near so bad that it's effecting consumer A/V electronics. Yet.
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