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AlfredoTurkey on 19 November 2015
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haxxiy said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Soundwave said:

$300 isn't a huge number, if people aren't willing to buy your product at $300, it means most likely it doesn't have great mass appeal to begin with.

Even the Wii, which was $250 at launch, with inflation taken into account, that's a shade over $295 in 2015 dollars. 

Inflation doesn't matter to the consumer. People don't look at a sticker price and go "Well, it's X amount of dollars, but... given inflation bla bla bla." That's not now it works. People assign STICKER PRICES to certain things and don't budge from it. 

Game consoles will never sell well if they go beyond a certain price point, inflation or not.

Never is a rather long time. Standards change with inflation. The New York Times costed a penny a hundred years ago and now it is 250 times more expensive. A few thousand dollars were a reasonable fortune and could buy you a home. Just grab a supermarket leaflet from 10, 15 years ago and see how your own standards changed a little, even if subconsciously.

Or look here - http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/05/05/10-everyday-grocery-items/

There is absolutely zero evidence whatsoever to corroborate your theory. And in fact, your smug tone makes it rather pleasurable to point out how you post stuff that works only in your imagination.

 

 

 


This isn't black and white. Some things people tolerate, some things they don't. Video games, or should I say, core gamers, live inside of a vacuum. This is why games don't cost $150.00 (that is what they would cost today if inflation kept up with the market since the 80's). Gamers have an idea of what they're willing to pay and don't give two shits about inflation. The Atari 2600 was a smash hit, and it retailed for $199.99 in 1977. Do you know what that would cost today? Nearly $800.00. Are gamers willing to pay that? No? Why? Because they have placed a sticker value on a console and aren't willing to go much beyond that, inflation or not.

 

And as far as you taking joy in attempting to humiliate other people... you might want to chill on that for your own good. The road of a schadenfreude is usually a progressively narrowing pathway to nothing.