Never been a better time to be a gamer! True or false? (Poll)

[Leynos]

LegitHyperbole said:

SvennoJ said:

Yes, there was anticipation that is sorely missing now. All you hear now about the PS5 Pro is how expensive it is. And why not, it doesn't do anything new. Contrast that to the memory expansion for N64, that had hype and made new games possible.

I once bought an indie game from Australia for PC, came on a 3.5" diskette through the mail. Indies were everywhere. Plus we had the demo scene thriving. I also bought Computer Animation Festival Laserdiscs we watched together to marvel at the advances in technology. The Mind's Eye, Beyond the Mind's Eye.


The mod scene was thriving. The 90s created a whole new music genre, chip tunes.


There were TV shows using games, TV shows about games. Game Magazines sold in the supermarkets, demo discs attached.

The 90s were a great time to be a gamer.

You're glossing over a lot. There was consoles back then that exceed the price of the PRO when you take inflation into account. Games actually were more taking the same into account. Etc. 

And there is a reason CDi/3DO failed. Aside from crap libraries but also insane prices. 700 bucks. 1400 or so today. The only outlier to that is NEO GEO AES. That made sense it was the peak era of Arcades and Arcades were generally much more powerful than consoles. So a system as powerful as an Arcade made sense at 600 bucks. It was for a niche enthusiast market. Games are not capable is running on anything else at the time aside from an Arcade machine. The added bonus was you could take your save data via a memory card to an arcade.