Sky Render on 17 June 2008
Accounting for inflation when comparing products is kind of pointless. What matters is the perception of the product. If $600 is considered expensive to a consumer, it takes some significant change to change this viewpoint. And inflation alone is not good enough to cause this to happen. It would take the side-effects of inflation (ie. prices of products all rising to meet the relative state of inflation) to change how people value products. As it stands, this minimum initial sale value for new consoles has only changed two times in the history of consoles: the bar was set at $200 by the Atari 2600, then raised to $250 by the Wii.
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