I just realized that it should also be taken into considertaion that the other consoles in the list didn't include mandatory data-mining devices. Albeit hard to quantify in monetary terms, I would say that retaining your right to privacy has some value too-- so that's a further reduction of Xbone's value.

That's very impressive.

Adjusted:

Pretty accurate Value for Money Chart, well done. Indeed, for its time PS3 was really something, wasn't it?

Thank you. VERY interesting.

I have a serious problem with using the adjusted chart, because it "feels" nothing like how things costed. The N64 didn't feel like the third cheapest console of all time. The NES surely can't have felt that expensive.

What's interesting is that the NES is Nintendo's most expensive console ever (in today's dollars), though strangely the GameCube isn't on the list, which is odd.

Also interesting that the Wii U is rather inexpensive, relative to the rest of Nintendo's console offerings.

I remember my parents thinking the NES was THAT expensive, haha. Took forever for them to get us one.

I do think NES felt that expensive. I remember a friend got one and the rest of us felt it was out of our league to ever buy one, even though we had Commodore 64s and Amigas.

But N64 definitaly didn't feel dirt cheap like the Wii did.

Being the cheapest doesn't make any console the clear winner.

Cost x Benefit in the eyes of consumers is what matters.