Gaming Consoles After Inflation

December 16, 2017

A look at how the value of gaming consoles would be recently.

Saw this image at Twitter and noticed how expensive old consoles like the Atari 2600 and Intellivision would be today. Quite interesting.

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dementedhut - December 18, 2017 (10:17 PM)
The 3DO's price is never going to stop blowing my mind. It was ridiculous then, and continues to be ridiculous.

joseph_valencia - December 19, 2017 (03:43 PM)
You had to be either really rich or really into SNK to afford a Neo-Geo and a healthy game library.

Masters - December 21, 2017 (01:00 PM)
I recall the Sega CD and Turbografx-CD being right up there with 3DO. But at least they were good...

honestgamer - December 22, 2017 (12:51 PM)
As bad as the console prices felt at the time, to a teen struggling to buy even the Nintendo 64, the games were the real struggle. There wasn't the steady stream of great content we see today, but there were still a lot of great titles coming on a regular basis, more than I could hope to buy. And they cost $65 or so back then... or much, much more in the case of Neo*Geo (you can see why I decided not to even bother with that system or its library, though now an ever increasing variety of titles from that platform are available digitally).

bwv_639 - December 23, 2017 (03:50 AM)
"And they cost $65 or so back then"

In Europe � due to different VAT rules and what else � the prices were around the equivalent of $100 for games for the NES and SNES, and more yet for N64 games. We are talking of 1990's $100 not 2017's $100.

People who moved to the Sony camp started bootlegging everything, in my area at least, and that possibility, I surmise, played into Sony's hands. I don't know how much of a localized phenomenon, as opposed to widespread, that was, though.

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	dementedhut - December 18, 2017 (10:17 PM) The 3DO's price is never going to stop blowing my mind. It was ridiculous then, and continues to be ridiculous.
	joseph_valencia - December 19, 2017 (03:43 PM) You had to be either really rich or really into SNK to afford a Neo-Geo and a healthy game library.
	Masters - December 21, 2017 (01:00 PM) I recall the Sega CD and Turbografx-CD being right up there with 3DO. But at least they were good...
	honestgamer - December 22, 2017 (12:51 PM) As bad as the console prices felt at the time, to a teen struggling to buy even the Nintendo 64, the games were the real struggle. There wasn't the steady stream of great content we see today, but there were still a lot of great titles coming on a regular basis, more than I could hope to buy. And they cost $65 or so back then... or much, much more in the case of Neo*Geo (you can see why I decided not to even bother with that system or its library, though now an ever increasing variety of titles from that platform are available digitally).
	bwv_639 - December 23, 2017 (03:50 AM) "And they cost $65 or so back then" In Europe � due to different VAT rules and what else � the prices were around the equivalent of $100 for games for the NES and SNES, and more yet for N64 games. We are talking of 1990's $100 not 2017's $100. People who moved to the Sony camp started bootlegging everything, in my area at least, and that possibility, I surmise, played into Sony's hands. I don't know how much of a localized phenomenon, as opposed to widespread, that was, though.

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