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Many of you younger gamers already know this, but just a fun fact to those who don’t: 1st party N64 games were $60 in 1997, or $112 today
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Many of you younger gamers already know this, but just a fun fact to those who don’t: 1st party N64 games were $60 in 1997, or $112 today
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then we had £40 games from the ps1 era up to the xbox 360
This honestly makes me sad. I wish I saved everything…
Thankfully second hand games started to become more of a thing around this time, previously I’d struggled to find anything worthwhile on the Mega Drive 2nd hand.
Mischief Makers and Extreme G cost me ~£15 towards the end of 1998, which is around £30 in today’s money, the only time I’d get new N64 games was Christmas.
Perhaps it was also costlier to make the games with the technology they had then and having to also create the cartridges? Idk.
NFL Quarterback Club. I remember thinking graphics had peaked with that game 😄.
Mischief makers was worth every single dollar
I loved Extreme G so much, so much fun
$112 for Mythologies is a god damn rip-off
Fun fact my dad was making 100k in 90s, which is 190k today
He also had 4 cars, a 2 story house and 3 kids.
Oh the 90s
How much do i make 26k
The SNES and Genesis also had games from $50-$65 constantly.
Please god let Mischief Makers come to virtual console or whatever it’s called now.
My brother & I lived off the rental scene from the local video rental place lol
16 bit and N64 games were sometimes $70 or more in 1990s money, as well. I remember wayne gretsky’s hockey on N64 being $70
Many of you younger gamers already know this, but just a fun fact to those who don’t:
Wages have been stagnant for a long time for the majority of working families. Inflation has far outpaced increases in pay across the board.
If you think that is something look up Neo Geo game costs
Up in Canada I can remember some n64 games being 100 bucks back then.
You also used to get the full game. No DLC. What’s the price of the game + DLC? That’s more than exceeded inflation I bet.
people could afford back then cause houses, gas, food were cheap lol
I paid $79.99 for FF3 on the SNES back in ‘94. In today’s money that’s got to be like 50k 😄
I mean I wouldn’t mind paying $112 for the most influential games of our time. Fully completed games without any patches or updates.
I don’t get these posts. As industries grow and expand the cost to consumer generally cheapens. The first wave of a new product are generally more expensive. Especially with tech.
TVs have gotten cheaper. Computers have gotten more affordable/usable as the years have gone on. This should be expected.
As the market grows you have more buyers. More buyers means you can sell for less.
Also these companies today are able to reuse past work. They do it all the time and just make small iterations.
Two things here:
1.) It cost a lot more to make and distribute these cartridges.
> Due to the complex manufacturing processes, cartridge-based games are more expensive and difficult to manufacture than their disk-based counterparts.[21][better source needed] PlayStation CD-ROMs reportedly cost US$1 (equivalent to about $2 in 2022) to manufacture, while cartridges for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System cost $15 ($28)[22] and Nintendo 64 cartridges reportedly more than $30 ($56).[23]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_Game_Pak#Manufacturing_cost
2.) Even if developers make less per game the volume of sales are much greater today. This has led to consistent growth in year over year profits for nearly every publisher leading up to the price hike.
What few studios lost money did so either because of poor reception of their products, aka bad games, or because they saw an unsustainable growth due to Covid.
None of these publishers *lost* money. They simply saw less revenue than projected.
And the first ones to hop on the $70 price hikes were also the ones at the top doing just fine.
I stand by the fact that these were entirely motivated by greed and nothing more.
Computer shit in general is a lot cheaper now than it was in the 80’s and 90’s. When I was in undergrad most of the students used word processing machines made by Brother to type essays and such. When I went off to grad school I bought a 50mhz computer and it was about $2000. And computers at the time basically became obsolete after a year or two, particularly if you wanted to play games on them. In today’s money, imagine paying over $4000 for a new computer every two years and you’d have to buy the video card separately. So like, maybe $5000 every two years.
Had to mow my old neighbors lawn $10 a pop, took 6 weeks usually before getting to choose the next hit. She’s still alive, my little brother sometimes mows, gets $25. Inflation! When you picked a crap game like glover or wcw mayhem… that Hurt and still had to power through. Get that moneys worth.
I’ll do you one better. In 1986, the original *Legend of Zelda* for the NES hit the shelves at [$49.99](https://www.joshuakennon.com/video-games-may-seem-more-expensive-but-they-arent-its-all-in-your-head/), which comes to just over $139 today. That was the normal price for NES games, and it’s one reason why we rented games instead of buying them.