Price of Gaming

The price of gaming has soared dose anyone else but me think 60 dollars for a game is too much ? Whatever happned to games being affordable to everyone I mean look at how much money the viedo game companies are raking in.

Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.The_Rick_14

yea I mean 60$ cant but much

Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.The_Rick_14

oh thank god someone other than myself remembers the days of $60-$70 game carts. $60 isn't that much since its less than the game were 10+ years a ago

Games used to be more expensive 15 years ago, good games are bargains to be honest. Just don't buy the bad ones.BenderUnit22

yeah i remember when i was a kid walking into EB and seeing Nintendo 64 and PS Games for like $89.99. but now it all depends on where you go to buy your games, i usually buy them at Walmart rather than EB or Futureshop. Walmart usually sells the game for $10 less

[QUOTE="The_Rick_14"]Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.gundamfan80

oh thank god someone other than myself remembers the days of $60-$70 game carts. $60 isn't that much since its less than the game were 10+ years a ago

Even MageDrive game were around that price back in its days. :P

Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.The_Rick_14

[QUOTE="The_Rick_14"]Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.guyhunter

Yea I just figured the one's complaining were probably younger folks, so I tried to use a reference point they could relate to.

[QUOTE="guyhunter"][QUOTE="The_Rick_14"]Why do people think the price of gaming has increased? For christ's sake, Nintendo 64 games were $50.The_Rick_14

Yea I just figured the one's complaining were probably younger folks, so I tried to use a reference point they could relate to.

video games have always been expensive.

in 1972 the magnavox Oddessy was $100 69x the US minimum wage

in 1980 the Intellivison gaming console was $300 96x the minimum wage

in 1982 the Coleco Vision system with expansion pack #1 was around $30089x minimum

1985 NES ( 2 year old system from Japan originally 14.8k yen) $200 60x minimum wage

1995 playstation $30070x minimum wage

2000 ps2 $300 58x minimum wage

2006 ps3 $600 116x minimum wage

video games have always been expensive.

in 1972 the magnavox Oddessy was $100 69x the US minimum wage

in 1980 the Intellivison gaming console was $300 96x the minimum wage

in 1982 the Coleco Vision system with expansion pack #1 was around $30089x minimum

1985 NES ( 2 year old system from Japan originally 14.8k yen) $200 60x minimum wage

1995 playstation $30070x minimum wage

2000 ps2 $300 58x minimum wage

2006 ps3 $600 116x minimum wage

grathan

I thought they raised minimum wage last fall to 6.95 (I know it is here in Michigan) so the PS3 is 86x min wage, and really if your making minimum wage you have bigger problems than the price of a PS3.

The price of games has not gone up in over 20 years!!! I remember when I was about 7 or so, and my parents bought Mike Tyson's punchout for us, it was 50 bucks in 1987!!! All the nes games new were 50 bucks, so a ten dollar increase about every 20+ years isn't the worst!! I wish cars and houses only went up 20 or so percent since 1987!!!!!!!!