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General Category => Latest News => Topic started by: FyberOptic on May 16, 2006, 01:35:40 pm

Title: So Many Dollars
Post by: FyberOptic on May 16, 2006, 01:35:40 pm

Curmudgeon Gamer (http://curmudgeongamer.com/2006/05/history-of-console-prices-or-500-aint.html) has compiled the data about the absolute and relative prices of all the major consoles over the years, making the newer systems prices look less awful compared to older systems.  Though all said and done, the other more expensive systems in history (Neo-Geo, CD-i, 3DO, etc) never caught on, either.

(http://www.fybertech.com/images/news/console-prices.jpg) (http://curmudgeongamer.com/2006/05/history-of-console-prices-or-500-aint.html)

Title: Re: So Many Dollars
Post by: Altzan on May 16, 2006, 06:17:55 pm

Wow. That's all I gotta say.

Title: Re: So Many Dollars
Post by: Prox on May 16, 2006, 08:08:00 pm

1000 dollars for a NeoGeo?

/me spews coffee all over the place

Title: Re: So Many Dollars
Post by: FyberOptic on May 16, 2006, 08:58:05 pm

I don't know of anyone who ever owned or even wanted one at the time.  Especially when the cartridges were about $200+.

Title: Re: So Many Dollars
Post by: Buzzard on May 17, 2006, 09:28:43 pm

Neo Geo was retarded, I see. Same with 3DO

Title: Re: So Many Dollars
Post by: FyberOptic on May 18, 2006, 01:25:08 am

At least the 3DO had Star Control 2, which is what lead to Ur-Quan Masters being developed, since that's where they got the voices and nicer music that the original PC one didn't have.