Who is the most money grubbing console maker in the industry?

[sc94597]

Conina said:

sc94597 said:

In inflation adjusted dollars the Switch is comparable to the Wii. In 2007 you'd be hard pressed to find a top-end gaming PC as powerful (all things considered) as the Switch, let alone home consoles. The best GPU's at the time had 1 GB of GDDR VRAM. Most GPU's only had 512 MB. And these were cards that cost $500. By the way, the PSP retailed at $250 when it first released (which is almost $300 today) and sold quite well. Not as well as the NDS, but still quite well. The same can be said for the 3DS (albeit with an immediate price drop.)

good gaming PC 1995/1996 = $2500 - $4000

good gaming PC 2000/2001 = $1800 - $3000

good gaming PC 2005/2006 = $1500 - $2500

good gaming PC 2010/2011 = $1200 - $2200

good gaming PC 2015/2016 = $800 - $1800

Take this, inflation!

Sure the costs of high end hardware have decreased, but the costs for low-end have remained quite constant because there is a minimum fixed cost for production. This has nothing to do with inflation though. Inflation still affects the prices even when they decrease. If there were no inflation the nominal prices would be even less than the trend you constructed.