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Originally Posted by Dr Mario Kart
Thats still way the hell out there.
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Not really. Adjusted for inflation, the NES would cost over $400 now. Adjusted for inflation, the PS1 would cost $400 now. The PS3 is $100 more, and look at what it comes with compared to earlier consoles. PS1 game support, PS2 game support, plays PS3 games, plays all DVDs, plays bluray movies, has a built in web browser, a 60 GB hard drive, wireless controller as a default, true hi-def support, the firmware now supports DVD upscaling, etc. the list goes on.
Since videogames were released, videogame prices have technically went down due to the prices never really going up considering inflation. I still remember paying $80 for SNES games in the early 90s and $70-$80 for N64 games in the mid to late nineties. Game prices aren't that high now, 10 years later, after inflation has already lessed the value of a dollar by another 25%.
The only reason the PS3 seems so damned expensive is because its competitors are cheaper. Nintendo packed a motion controller on top of an overclocked Gamecube and sold it for $250. That makes $500 and definitely $600 look absurd even though the $250 pricepoint is really what's absurd.