Gaming Consoles After Inflation

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

By CptRetroBlue · December 16, 2017

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

Comments 5

dementedhut Dec 18, 2017

The 3DO's price is never going to stop blowing my mind. It was ridiculous then, and continues to be ridiculous.

joseph_valencia Dec 19, 2017

You had to be either really rich or really into SNK to afford a Neo-Geo and a healthy game library.

Masters Staff Dec 21, 2017

I recall the Sega CD and Turbografx-CD being right up there with 3DO. But at least they were good...

honestgamer Staff Dec 22, 2017

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 Dec 23, 2017

"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.