The image that destroyed Anon Babble

Inflation also wasn't out of wack in the 90s
The dollar had far more power back then than today

zoomers dont know what the word scam means
Just say you are poor

And this is why nobody was gaming in the 90s

Well if you don't live with your parents, enjoy starving.

I love that to use this argument you have to ignore the fact cartridges had actual hardware in them that dictated how much it cost to manufacture and sell them, as well as the fact game prices dropped once the move to optical media happened.

It's actually almost 200.

its okay for games to come back up in price because i paid those prices (translation: my mommy and daddy did) over 2 decades ago

Ok now do it with PS1 prices
Oh you wont I wonder why

keep posting Canadian prices

then LARP as an oldfag

Kys

Those were $50

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People pay 80-100 dollars to play a game 3 days early with these "limited editions" companies shit out nowadays anyway

Alright now show the overall sales for the 90s games

Carts were expensive to manufacture and game companies passed that cost onto consumers. CDs were a godsend as it led to games lowering in prices.

Games used to be £20-40, 20 years ago.

archive.org/details/argos-catalogue-autumn-winter-2002/2002-03 ARGOS AUTUMN AND WINTER MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE/page/n759/mode/2up

Go to page 760.

Question
Which console from the 1990's (1996) had the most cheapest games and the lowest prices of all?

jeet thread

retards keep posting in it

Imagine advocating for a fucking multi billion dollar foreign company instead of yourself

The Switch has almost 3 times the market of the N64. They sell much more volume than the N64 days. Higher volume means they can keep the price lower. It's called economics.

calculators used to cost 1000$. they need to stop selling them for 3$ at target and sell them for 5,000$ which is adjusted for inflation

Okay, your point?

damn drumpfs tariffs are so bad that they affected prices from 30 years ago

earthbound sold millions and look it's $90 so shut the fuck up

In the 90s games had color manuals ,huge boxes, you were buying a whole ass cart

I'm sure Gamestop will throw in some cardboard if you ask them for it

calculators used to cost 1000$

Their functional equivalent(PCs) still cost about that amount

isn't it kinda telling that people always post the one newspaper clipping and can't pull out multiple examples

earthbound sold millions

lol

Kek you're the only one who noticed

And you got a physical copy.
The problem isn't the price it's the fact that it's a gamekeycard. You.own.nothing.

"Games used to cost $50000" claims basically all come from Canadian Toys R Us.

If tendies are so willing to give their money to Nintendo, could they please just buy the game for me? Think about it, you get to pay Nintendo twice for the same game and stop me from pirating it. Win-win

And the N64 got bodied in that gen by $39.99 PS1 games. You weren't even alive in the '90's.

BASED

my dad paid for them, sucks not having a dad huh.

as well as the fact game prices dropped once the move to optical media happened.

How the fuck does that help anyone now? And how do you cope with the fact that prices were absolutely unchanged during the move from optical to digital-only downloads?

How about you just sit there and look pretty, fucking moron.

comparing a time when the $ was literally worth more, so $80 was not as much of a financial impact as it is now

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Can you stop shilling from India, Redditbob?

muh inlfation, muh costs retards itt

Gaming client base in 90's was a tiny fraction of what it is now, especially after massive covid boom. Devs now have like 10x more potential clients than back in 90's so even with increased costs and inflation they still make shitton more money on released games just simply by more sold copies and more clients. Nothing justifies $80/$90 games, especially after game devs banked billions on covid boom and the likes of nintendo just re-releasing same decades old games or making some copy-paste games like mario kart. Anyone trying to justify that is a retarded cuck.

I've seen multiple examples posted over the past few days here. I also lived during that time, unlike you, so I already know how cheaper game prices were during the late 90's and early 00's.

The problem isn't the price it's the fact that it's a gamekeycard

Name a single situation where this makes any practical difference whatsoever

Based

On one hand, no, the rest of the world wasn't paying Canadian prices for video games. I grew up in the 90s and could afford, through pocket change from chores, to buy N64 games.

On the other hand, of course game prices would go up when we've had close to 400% inflation since 1999 (when you go off of commodity prices and not official government statistics). For publishers to pay devs more they need to earn more money.

On the other other hand, most game sales these days are digital, and digital games cost companies mere pennies per sale and not $15 - $20 like physical did. If Nintendo sold a game to you via Wal-Mart or Gamestop for $60, they would realistically see $40 of that. Ninty doesn't have to pay factories to produce physical copies when their games can be sold via the e-shop and net them $59.97 out of a $60 game's sale price. All they need to do to make more money is make better games that sell more copies.

what is 80$ in 1990s in 2020's cash?

$90

Way to undermine what would otherwise be a solid argument with made up bullshit, retard.

copy-paste games like mario kart

Disingenuous faggot.

I was pirating video games in the 90s and I haven't stopped

The Switch hasn't even sold 3x as much as the NES so no, Nintendo doesn't have 10x the customer base.

no production cost

no shipping cost

no retail markup

but digital only game cost more than ever

You're being scammed, dumbass.

Back in myyyyyy dayyy the computer was the size of an entire room and telephones came with a back pack! You kids don't know how good you have it

Ok grandpa, it's bed time.

Gaming client base in 90's was a tiny fraction of what it is now,

Explain this

cartridge full of chips and electronics, some even had a battery to store your saves that lasted for decades, you really owned yhe game and could resell it or give it away

vs

digital shit that you don't really own because you cant resell it

Also all the costs of transporting, storing, displaying physical goods. Now they just keep some copies of the file and make infinite copies

Nah nigger, physical goods or I just pirate your shit

Keep in mind that, with real inflation numbers and not the government's fake numbers it's actually closer to half this number.

Let's just ignore that game rentals, the greatest hits line, and the preowned game market were all huge things back then.

kek I got 1 or 2 of those PER YEAR nigga.
These fucks had to last you MONTHS or even YEARS. Your only choice was to trade them, good thing you could do so at the time :)

Sony tries raising the price of video games

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Nintendo tries raising the price of video games even higher

(:

Why are you like this

Games cost way more to make now than back then, though. AA games these days cost more than AAA games in 2005. Nintendo produces games for way cheaper than other AAA gaming companies to the point where people argue they only make AA games. But even then, Nintendo's games these days are in the realm of 3 - 4x what they were in the 2000s.

Those expensive games were mitigated by cheap groceries, cars and home. Games shouldn't be $80 when the technology has advanced enough to made it easier to make one.

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Nintendo is raising prices BECAUSE Sony got away with doing it. Same reason Nintendo started charging for online. Sony got away with it after they saw Microsoft get away with it.

In any case, GTA VI is going to be $100 and it's going to sell 10s of millions meaning the hullabaloo over MKWo costing $90 is going to be forgotten.

So make a video game then lol

Right, that's why video games have become the most dominate and profitable entertainment industry over the past 20 years even though priced haven't risen until just recently. Stop buying into their bullshit, anon.

Nintendofags have been sucking so much dick that I bet they have completely lost their gag reflex by now

I hate Tendies so much

It's not that cars, homes, and groceries are expensive these days, it's that your wages haven't kept up with inflation because of course they haven't. TPTB imported millions of brown people to undercut your labor and shipped your jobs overseas so they could skiff you on raises.

THE EXTRA PLASTIC MADE IT WORTH IT

you sound so fucking stupid, dude

new technologies are... le epensive?

SNES games were grounbreaking, while shitty vroom vroom wahoo look two generations behind

Those expensive games were mitigated by cheap groceries, cars and home.

No. They were mitigated by the fact you could rent them so you'd only buy the ones you really love. Nintendo hated this fact and even succeeded going after rental services in Japan because they weren't making enough money.

Yeah, that's why a huge percentage of the industry was laid off last year. Nintendo was the only large game dev that DIDN'T lay off employees in 2023 or 2024.

Nintendo is one of the only companies that still supports physical. As long as they do that I'll keep buying their games.

snes/genesis prices were random but by the time n64 came out, 99% of games were 49.99 as the standard.
also magazine prices weren't in-store prices as price differs per region in usa.

yall getting tricked by old magazine ads and comparing them to current.

They sell games to 1 billion of people instead of 100 millions now. Games should be 5x cheaper even after inflation

A few weeks ago I bought

Titanfall 2

Metro Exodus

Anno 1800

Battlefield V&1

Kingdom Come

for an average price of 3.5€ per game.
If 80$ is the only reasonable price, how am i able to get so much value for my money?
Or am i the reason Ubisoft is kill

My dad used to work at Sears in the early 90s and would change the price of the game to something like $1 and then buy it before changing it back to its normal price. I had a lot of SNES games because of that fucker

They were laid off last year because of retarded business management and excessive superfluous hires to tick boxes; not a sudden low profitability because games were too cheap. You're a goddamn idiot.

Your dad was a thief and a piece of shit.

Game prices should be based on their metacritic score

Shadow Counter

The mag is from Canada, where prices are always ~1.5 times the corresponding US price. Games were at most ~$60 in the US at the same time. OP is just full of shit.

Old American here with my anecdote. Super Mario Bros 3 was, at one point, $75 at my local Toys R Us. This doesn't excuse the current pricing. Optical discs dropped prices for physical games, and digital eliminated the physical costs of manufacturing and distribution altogether. You are getting ripped off.

Take your troon pills schizo.

>Titanfall 2

Unironically maybe the best FPS campaign ever, have fun

You're a retard putting the cart before the horse. The layoffs happened because developing games got more expensive than they were profitable. Games usually take in excess of 500 people and 3 - 4 years of dev time to create these days. The low price tag (in comparison to the cost of hiring developers) means that they aren't profitable.

The quality is more or less irrelevant since we know normalfag goycattle will buy utter slop in the millions. That's why FIFA and NBA 2K still sell millions of copies and why EA can stay afloat even if all their other games are dogshit no one wants to buy.

It's not stealing if you still pay for it. He just gave himself a discount.

That just incentivizes customers to review bomb games to get a discount.

It's not stealing if you leave a dollar on the counter before walking out with it

Still not buying Switch 2 :)

Literally always the same image

All of that effort just to be called a "fucker" by his 35 year old virgin son 30 years later.

And what year was this magazine published?

my knees...they're giving way...

Kinda based

You understand literally nothing. Layoffs weren't because they were no longer making money. It's about shareholders, increasing profit margins, and shrinking payroll by laying off superflous positions like community managers. Games were still making money but they wanted more money. Nintendo isn't raising prices because they need to cover rising costs to make money, they're raising prices so they can make even more money then they were. Outside fo the rare exception like Ubisoft they are all still posting 7-8 digit profit numbers. You are a corporate cock sucking sheep. You are why things get worse. Please kill yourself.

Luxury items were indeed luxury, BUT. The price for things that weren't luxury were not only cheaper, they were practically nothing. A carton of eggs was 2 bucks. Trying to say that it is ok for these items to skyrocket in price because at one point Video Games were expensive in the past, while everything else becomes a mess of unsustainable prices is simply never going to work. It just means that everything is now at the wrong price and people are going to prioritize the things that they need. Nintendo will not make the money they think they will by raising prices when people have less money for their entertainment. It is probably one of the stupidest business decisions they have made in a while. Also, people don't trust them to lower prices after inflation goes back down and don't want to encourage this to become the standard.

My PS2 cost more than $1200 fucking bucks, you cunt.

Switch 2 bros... our narrative...

OK now show how much groceries were in the 90s

redditbob

kys

Based. SPBP. /thread

And gas prices
Also Wendy's

Reminder, Nintendo was (and probably still is) against RENTING games (and even made it banned in Japan).

Oh sweaty. It sold like 650,000 across all regions.

Anon Babble AI is progressing nicely, but you can tell this one is just drawing from a large list of generic responses.

starwing

Which Euro currency are you trying to pass off as analogous to USD?

probably Australia or NZ. I never recall games being that expensive here in Canada. It was $60 tops

im destroyed, i will literally never recover and will be purchasing all games at full msrp plus tip

"B-but muh inflation!"

shut the fuck up, capitalist investor jew
I won't buy wokeslop and I won't buy overpriced nipslop
simple as

Inflation

Isn't the thing about inflation is that, while a 20 dollar bill back then is technically still the same 20 dollar bill is today; back then, you can buy alot of things for under 20 dollars while nowadays you can't buy alot with 20 dollars?

so when talking about inflation, when people say "$20, shifted to inflation, is $100", doesn't that really mean that 20 dollars, back then, was like having 100 dollars nowadays, (i.e. you could live off 20 dollars alone back then)?

As we get better at making and distributing things they become cheaper. Anyways all my early 2000’s gamers remember 12 dollar rentals from blockbuster and target and gamefly. Joeys mom would shell out his allowance and you would spend the whole month going to his house every day after school to play the newest shooties and scrimblo platformers before he had to return them. Its honestly kind of pathetic to see the acquiescence of gamers since the golden age (2007-2011) of game releases.

the same mario kart ive played for the last 20 years for 80 bucks?

6 times the price of a vidya rental during the global financial crisis?

and i dont even get to own the game

well what can i say except WOWIE ZOWIE!!!

They want to squeeze as much money as possible, there is no reason other than that. They don't NEED to make a game $80-90 that will sell tens of millions of copies.

Gas prices in old movies always tickle me. This is Die Hard (1988). By the way, adjusted for inflation this amount would be 2.15/gal

and you got 1 game for your birthday, 1-2 games for christmas
the rest was renting/exchanging with friends
even the most spoiled kids at my class didn't own more than 10 games

I hope Trump pushes them to 100 just to see tendies have a melty.

That's correct. You used to be able to buy houses (assembly required) for under 1 grand. Back in the early 1900s, $1 was worth close to $200 today.

It's insane how much people treat game prices as this untouchable fixture that can't be affected by inflation, uncertainty and tariffs the way literally everything else in the economy is

I'd rather everyone complain how they want to charge me the same fucking price for some code as they do for a physical copy of the game that has to be manufactured, wrapped, boxed, shipped, stored and bagged.

I don't remember ever paying more than $60 for a game. That said, I do remember games being more expensive at places like Toys R Us, so I guess it's possible a few other stores also had stupid expensive prices.

Long story short, money is not an exact measure of wealth. Wealth is what goods and services you can obtain with your assets. A good example is how billionaires rarely even have a couple of million in cash, their wealth comes from the value of their stocks.

When governments spend money they don't have, they're creating inflation. You might not see your taxes go up, but you are being taxed nonetheless by the government stealing your wealth and making your money weaker.

worst niggerlicious bait ive seen.

Consumers Distributing was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996.

classic Anon Babble falling for this shit

No, he's right and you're the idiot.
Video games have relatively cheaper production costs in every single avenue except for personnel, which has vastly inflated. They are better able to distribute, they can take advantage of economies of scale more effectively, technology has become both cheaper and easier to handle, companies are more willing to accept them as legitimate business rather than nerd niches, and last but not least consumers are FUCKING RETARDED and forgive them for fuck ups that would have any other industry dead in under a decade.

The only reason the industry is in trouble is because their hires are incompetent and there are too many of them.
This is a compounding issue because it causes games to have vastly higher production times, which in turn inflates all the other costs even more, which causes cost cutting in other avenues, which fucks up the product and causes a death spiral.

Anyone telling you that games are inherently more expensive to make is a liar or an idiot.

I'd rather everyone complain how they want to charge me the same fucking price for some code as they do for a physical copy of the game that has to be manufactured, wrapped, boxed, shipped, stored and bagged.

I tried in , but Anon just told me to seethe, cope, etc.

That's because it costs next to nothing to sell you a game file. It's not like an apple where you have a physical good that takes time to grow and can disappear. Games are theoretically eternal. It'd be more akin to you growing an apple that could clone itself so you could then sell infinity cloned apples. The only limiting factor that could justify raising the cost of those infinity apples is how many people want to buy your infinity apples.

Physical copies are another matter entirely. I agree that physical copies should be subject to inflation because they're made with physical materials. The box, the disc, the physical space they take up... those are all valuable.

all of the material, with the exception of cement, brick, and plaster

So they give you a truckload of 2x4s?
Still, cool little house, but you should have at least 1.5 bathrooms for 4 bedrooms. Imagine having to wake up at 3 AM and traverse stairs to take a piss.

Using the Canadian prices to scaremonger

Ill argue the supply of gaming in the world was much much lower than it is now. I can go to steam, itch.io, or my phone's app store and find games for free let alone cheap to play. Nintendo needs to compete in the market more than it did when its competitors were Sega, Atari, and arcades.

And before OP tries to be a nigger about it here's more prices from 1996 in the US

what are economies of scale and business tools

and other topics in todays episode of Babby's First Econ Lesson

That's the Canadian Toys R Us ad. Killer Instinct was $59.99 USD on launch.

TRVTH NVKE

Both you and him are retarded. Games are only cheaper insofar as you can infinitely replicate the code to create them. They still cost far more to produce. The same thing applies to drugs. Producing pills takes relatively little money. There are few pills on Earth that cost more than $20 to produce. However, the R&D cost is why they end up being more expensive. You're paying the cost of the inventors of the pharmaceutical. The rarer the disease the pill cures, the more money each pill is going to cost. Sure, you COULD sell the pill for just a bit above the cost of producing, packaging, and shipping it, but then you'd be down all the money you spent on R&D.

Yes, the costs of individual copies is way down, but the costs of developing them are way up. Not out of necessity, but out of market demand. Retarded consumers have demanded games look prettier and prettier. That's how you end up with a bunch of games like pic related. It takes hundreds of extra developers years to produce that level of detail. And idiot consumers who don't care about the gameplay and only want a pretty game with an entertaining story are behind the drive to make more games like this. Nintendo has bucked this trend decades ago by just focusing on gameplay and music, two relatively cheap facets of a video game's development cost, but with increased power comes increased pressure to produce more and more detailed games, and with that comes massively ballooning development costs.

KEK

$199.99 N64

It took Sony coming with cheap CDs on PS1 to force a standardization of $50 at the time.
Now there's no standard and things are back to the point of the OP.

Anon Babbletards will never understand that games have been way too cheap for over 20 years

Monetary inflation and price inflation are different things. Products still need to respond to market demands even after the hyper monetary inflation we experienced. Plenty of things barely moved in price while things like groceries and rent skyrocketed. Alternatively when theres an artificial scarcity of something like gasoline it wont respond to monetary inflation/deflation. Gas distributors are beholden to refiners so if the refiners slow down production and prefer selling at ~70 dollars a barrel of oil, then it doesnt really matter what the market or the money printers say. They will artificially limit or overproduce until the price point is 70$ per barrel.

Anyways the term you are looking for is purchasing power, not inflation. Inflation is too much money chasing too few things or demand outpacing supply/production (the optimal mode of the economy according to the satanists that run the world). Money losing value over time or being worth more in certain markets is called purchasing power.

if anyone wants to read the actual magazine
web.archive.org/web/20170630000328/cdarchive.ca/UltimateVideo1996.pdf

They still cost far more to produce.

no, they don't. The individual facets are cheaper than back when games were a niche product that would call 100k copies a success.
In relative terms the only reason costs spiral is because they hire incompetents.
You've either swallowed the expense lie, or you're white knighting for massa

It's more that the average normgroid consumer who only cares if games look pretty is leading game developers astray and crashing the industry. If there wasn't a drive to make games look more and more detailed and realistic, game dev costs wouldn't have ballooned to the point where a $60 game price tag isn't enough.

Retarded goycattle are why games suck these days.

development costs have nothing to do with it. only considering the end result, high end video games are easily worth $120-$150

Anon, it costs much more to produce a single 3D model with textures these days than it did in 1997. Mario in SM64 could be modeled and textured by one guy in 4 hours. In the Bamham games, there's a guy whose entire job over the course of an entire year was making sure Batman's cape fluttered in the wind appropriately and didn't glitch out or clip with the model.

The added detail is why it's more expensive. You need more people working on fewer things. The vast majority of excess devs for modern games are just people creating assets.

my ancestors were telling germans to kill themselves even in ancient times

Based

golden age was 2007

Here, have a sword and kill yourself

We don't judge the price of games on the end result.

and that's why you're retarded

Germanicus was a Roman.

you are paying r&d

Retarded take. You pay because you cant get it cheaper anywhere else. They want to maximize profits at a price that they will still have customers and since pharma products get millions of patents they often dont have competition.

You pay because you cant get it cheaper anywhere else.

Yeah, because the company that paid for the R&D of the drug has a patent on it.

They raised prices 15 years ago when it became standard practice to sell $20+ in DLC for every fucking game they release. Now they're pushing that to the upfront retail price hoping it boosts revenue. They're not going to stop fleecing you after the fact, though, you'll still have to spend another $20-40 to get the full game. Fuck 'em, let them price themselves out of the market. I'll go buy $80 of lottery tickets before I buy a $80 AAA video game in 2025.

If only the end result matters, video game should have been like 10 bucks at most for the last decade.

kek kys you braindead retard

you pay because spending millions of dollars on something that loses money isn't sustainable.

Yeah im sure those billionaires that made life ruining painkillers are real mad about the r&d costs

what happens when the people spending billions on r&d run out of money because they're spending it for years with nothing but losses?

Germans arent romans dummy.

Then they pay off FDA testers to write off their failed clinical trials as successes and sell the company for hundreds of millions before their fraud is exposed. See former presidential candidate: Vivek ramaswamy

Ok so here's your cool plan for restructuring the pharma industry:

spend billions on r&d

when the money runs out, simply commit fraud and scam investors out of their money and then go start a new company

do this over and over again forever

Idk if this is a solid plan. If every single pharmaceutical company in existence was constantly going bankrupt and being sold using fraudulent data then isn't someone gonna notice eventually?

that one faggot that would borrow your rented disc and lose it so he avoids you on the playground for weeks

So whats your plan for when i blow thousands of dollars in the casino with nothing but loses?

Sarkreen

This image did nothing of the sort lol

So what's your plan for when everyone does the same thing?

Buy a casino i guess

TippyBippy NEETchad making wagies seethe

girl name

games technically cost about the same as they did for a brief time during the 90s

everyone who made some effort at a job could expect to afford a house comfortably, no worries of paying bills as long as you had a job, money leftover to spend on expensive games

today only a few can get houses despite working more hours, lower salaries as well as higher food costs, electricity prices skyrocketing

The price tag being kinda the same does not make the situation the same

Its an old Anon Babble bait tactic where you would put shareblue in the filename or a firstname lastname 4th period university name.

girl

ella hollywood, natalie mars next to "her"

mario kart is $50 though? What kind of retard wouldn't get the bundle if they are buying mario kart anyways

Physical goods. Actual quality products brought to you by people with reputation. You also got a cool manual. People rented games or bought used copies or on sale. You are a faggot redditor.
Normalfags.

Nigger you had to rent games for a reason

This is like saying its okay to rape people because people have been raped previously, what kind retarded counter argument is this. Are people proud of being scammed?

cheap plastic and cardboard is "quality"

God, gamers are the easiest consumers to milk, no wonder why microtransactions took off so easily.

True, but also the gaming market was probably like 5% the size that it is now so they had to just have a fat profit margin and retailers are going to demand higher margins for something that was much more niche back then and also took up more shelf space. It was probably a good bit mote expensive to make those cartridges than what Nintendo uses now.
The paid online and the fact that Nintendo won't just sell you retro game bundles.
If there was no paid online and they just had like some $80 bundle for all N64 games they have no licensing issues for and another $100 for Gamecube that'd be fine (even though there's dolphin etc.), I wouldn't really care about $80 games in 2025 desu, but Nintendo just comes off as big rice-loving jews who just keep seeing what they can get away with. They'll probably hike NSO cost 2 or 3 years into the Switch 2's life. But now you can stream with a mic and 2006-era camera :O

mario kart will actually be closer to $120 after all the DLC is released

I am fucking retarded!

You paid money for trash? Are you turbo? Why?

me when

You mean your parents when you were still a drooling idiot baby begging them to buy it for you. They also made more money than you currently do.

Go ahead and explain why a flimsy cardboard box that costs 5 cents to manufacture is a high quality product worth 80 dollars.

Games cost way more to make now than back then, though

No they don't. They cost less in almost all aspects and are easier to make more than ever. The issue is that company's bloat their teams, budget and marketing on their end to inflate the production cost but they don't need to. A small team can make a game on the cheap and inspire a genre

mfw my brother was stealing my vidya to pawn

Because said box contains a high quality videogame made by people with reputation. And because you were buying a physical product.
Also, not like you're aware of it, but barely anyone bought games full price. Renting existed. Sales existed. Selling used goods existed.

You're still buying a video game, the only difference is that it doesn't come with 5 cents of garbage made by a starving third worlder in a suicide net factory.

tfw no uncle larry to bang me out on my super mario blanket back in the 90s

A tendie is going to play Mario Kart for hundreds of hours. Won't be the same for all Nintendo games

>mfw my brother was stealing my vidya to pawn

the amount of people I knew growing up whos siblings stole their shit for weed is fucking insane. EVERY single one of them is now a burn out do nothing but yeah video games are for losers

Speak for yourself, a lot of games in (West) Germany went for sometimes 100+ if not 150, especially if it was import stuff. Mind you this was at a time when we still had a strong Deutschmark instead of the Euro.

Also, not like you're aware of it, but barely anyone bought games full price

same thing as now. No one with a brain pays full price

You're not buying a videogame, you're buying a licence that has no resale value

zased

Now explain why they are charging 90s game prices for downloads.

NOOOO I AM NOT OLD SHUT UP!!

resell value

who cares, selling a used video game isn't gonna make you that much money

Same, but they are being faggy about it now with the switch 2.

1. Housing (Median Home Price)
1996: The median home price in the U.S. was around $119,000.

2024: The median home price is much higher, typically around $425,000 (though it can vary greatly depending on the region).

2. Rent
1996: The average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment was around $600-$700 per month.

2024: The average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment is now about $1,500-$2,200 per month, depending on the city and market conditions.

3. Gas Prices
1996: Gas prices were about $1.23 per gallon.

2024: Gas prices are averaging around $3.60-$4.50 per gallon, depending on fluctuations and regional differences.

4. Groceries
1996: The cost of groceries was much lower. For example, a loaf of bread cost around $1.06, and a gallon of milk was about $2.65.

2024: A loaf of bread costs approximately $2.50-$3.50, and a gallon of milk is closer to $4.00-$5.00.

5. Income (Median Household Income)
1996: The median household income in the U.S. was approximately $36,300.

2024: The median household income has risen to around $75,000 (though this varies depending on the region).

6. College Tuition (Public University)
1996: In-state tuition at a public university averaged around $3,500 per year.

2024: In-state tuition at a public university has increased to about $10,000-$12,000 per year on average.

7. Healthcare Costs
1996: The average annual cost for healthcare insurance was about $1,500-$2,000 for a family.

2024: The average annual premium for family healthcare insurance is around $23,000, including employer contributions.

8. Inflation
1996-2024 Inflation Rate: Over the period from 1996 to 2024, inflation has averaged around 2.5%-3% per year, but certain costs (like housing and healthcare) have seen much higher increases than the general inflation rate.

Glad to see the catalogue prices in OP were just mass gaslighting. I kept seeing that posted and thinking that I remembered nothing like that in high school, but just brushed it off as some kind of bait. And of course, it was.

OP's image is a screenshot from SpongeBob's season 4 episode "Ghost Host"
The scene context is SpongeBob getting tired of the Flying Dutchman's repeated attempts at scaring him, after the latter spending some time on his house after crashing his ship.
No need to thank me.

Explain why the plastic makes it worth more.

They went bust cause of how shit their prices were, too.
Who the fuck was gonna pay $80 for the original DKC in '95.

LEAVE THE MULTI DOLLAR CORPERATION ALOOOOONE

No.
Corporate bootlicking is the most retarded and confusing behaviour. Why would I as a consumer ever advocate for anything other than what would benefit me the most (better products at lesser prices)?
Do the corporations act any different? Fuck no, they also act in their own self interest to charge me more and offer less.
Yet we have fucktards like you who go to bat for them anyway, what compels you to do so?

multi dollar

and the snes sold less than 50 million units, being one of the worst selling consoles of all time

If you paid real money for games in 90s you were tech. iliterate retard. I was in elementary at that time and even then I knew how to pirate PC games or where to buy fake chinese cartridges for consoles for like 2$/piece.

This is exactly why Nintendo got BTFO in the 90s though so it's a retarded argument. Sony came in and lowered the price of games by using CDs while Nintendo was still using expensive cartridges, selling to a comparatively small fanbase. today's situation is completely incomparable

I'm almost positive that prices were lower in the USA. I only remember the price of games going steadily upward from $40 to $50 to $60 etc.

The stock prices have been a mess recently.

Why is no one reading the thread and just getting repeatedly baited by OP?

how were food, amenity and housing prices back in the 90s? makes sense that the luxuries were expensive, but now people are paying $1500-$2000+ on rent and a bunch of money to buy shitty food while a nice tv is like 200 bucks.

beat me to it, was literally just thinking about that.

Its not tied to an external server.
I dont need an online connection to purchase/play/authenticate it.
I can allow a friend to borrow it, or bring it to a friend's house to play it on their system or others I own.
I can purchase it at a discounted value or second-hand.
I can trade or sell my copy of the game.
I dont need to worry about storage space on my hardware for the game data, and in the case the data does install from the media, its more convenient and future proof to re install from it, over an external server that may not be available, stop functioning or no longer supports the game files.

I never learned to read.

You wasted your time. Secondhand games at the time were dirt cheap and anything from the previous generation or "old tech", was practically (or literally) free.

Whew, check out the economist slumming it on Anon Babble

cartridge games are expensive due to production costs, disc games will be cheaper

disc games are expensive due to production costs, digital games will be cheaper

digital games are expensive because le reddit meme

this thread

lmao fpbp

I understand paying for physical copies, but i will never understand paying for a download.

You have a shit memory then. Prices have been 60 since the early 00s, before that they varied quite a bit. Over 70 was rare but in the 60s was common.

implying people actually paid that

we went to blockbuster like a normal fucking person

Most people rented games back then because it was much cheaper.

digital means DRM

oh nevermind you're a consolefag lmao, you never owned your games even when they came with cardborad

paying for games

Do Anon Babbleeddit really?

Can you put that in a meme pic format for me as I cant read normal words unless its a meme .

Proto-goypass

I'd be okay with paying this if the standards for actually releasing a game returned to how it was back then too. Unfortunately, we'd pay the increased price only to continue getting rushed products, botched ports and half of the game sold to us later as DLC.

Oh no!

Still not paying.

shills being disingenuous again

what else is new. fucking kill yourself OP you huge faggot.

there were tons of rushed games and botched ports back then but you didnt notice because you were 5 years old

Rentals were a viable alternative
Cost of distribution is far cheaper nowadays
Far more people play video games nowadays
Wages haven't gone up since the 90s
I could go on

This thread smells like a toilet

We had blockbuster back then.
Most expensive SNES/N64 games could be beaten in a 3-5 day rental period. Ownership wasn't a big deal for children.
We also had far better options for entertainment. We went outside, recreation centers, the mall, arcades, bowling alleys, tickets to sporting events were super cheap.

We pretty have no choice for fun except video games, unless you want to risk getting stabbed/shot in public. The other options require being wealthy and desu if you're super wealthy you're probably off to some island to fuck children.

That's an awesome r/meme you posted there my good sir, shut up and take my upvote!

the hell I remember killer intinct being like 30 dollars

the choices for entertainment are video games or epstein island, no in between

You really ought to get off the internet once in a while.

shut up, that's not what he said.

You are correct, but we all learned very quickly to avoid movie/tv tie in games.

the 90s

$90 game

sell half a million copies

now

$60 game

sell 10 million copies

BUH-BUH-BUH INFLATION! THINK OF THE COPORATIONS FOR GOD SAKE

Eternal reminder

now considering inflation, those games would be over 100 dollars today

Good. Gaming should be a luxury only reserved for people who can afford it, not an overinflated market held up by greedy Jews who pander to poor people.

If games costing 90 bucks filters you you're either an unemployed NEET Troon who is wasting xir money on HRT or a subhuman streetshitting apeman.

Inflation doesnt affect every product equally moron.

it was only the shovelware

LOL
megaman 7 was shat out in 3 months. most games lasted a few hours at most and were artificially lengthened by various different means. when you're 5 years old playing sonic the hedgehog it seems like it lasts for hours because you run out of continues and have to go back to the start, when you're an adult you either finish the game in a few hours or ragequit after running out of continues.

It's bizarre that I'm not seeing more people mention this, especially the used games market. I could buy a game for ten dollars or less just a few months after it came out.

Not even Nintendo was immune to this, my copy of Starfox 64 was bought for five bucks the same year it came out.

Why are trannies complaining about video game prices?

What am I suppose to see here?

cartdriges

with a huge box and manuals

this already gives more value than what we're getting, reminder the excuse for going digital is for cheaper games

Fun fact: In Europe Sega Genesis games were 50% less than SuperNes games which made the console more widespread.
Something similar happened with the N64 (super expensive games meanwhile PSX discs were cheaper and pirateable)

Prices have nothing to do with inflation, inflation is purely about relative value between some point in the past and today. Don't be fucking stupid.

nintendo was fucking the market in the ass back then when they had even more control over it

this excuses them trying to pull the same shit again for even less merit

??? Turns out your argument with this is just Nintendo was always a bunch of jews

what is monetary inflation

Read a book nigger

You're retarded if you think that's true

yet it still lost the war against the SNES
really puts it in perspective

I don't know which of those is worse, because 200 hour open world slop with mandatory walking sections, boring exposition and hours spent holding W until you get to the gameplay aren't what I'd call a decent replacement.

omg the hecking cardboard!

a company should try to take advantage of this by selling their game in a cardboard box with a bunch of paper in it but jack up the price by like $20.

Nominal vs real value.
It's funny how every single person that uses Spongebob memes to make a point are even more retarded than Patrick Star.

You just contradicted yourself, retard

What nintendo games are this exactly?

zoomers dont know what the word scam means

Saw this zoomer dude busying a gorilla couch from some AI generated ad and "supposely" paid thousands. I kid you not he got a shitty ugly blow-up couch that barely looked like the images and then poclaimed he wasn't scamed.

Zoomers are fucking hopeless.

I'm not saying it is good you fucking retard, i'm saying it's more value than what we are getting right now where we are to the point the game isn't even in the fucking disc

its like 10 cents of value

Sega did fairly decently against Nintendo, it was Sony who pushed them out of the market.
Well, it was mostly Sega being retarded but you get what I mean

that price a) people weren't paying, half the market was renting and b) was a smaller % of the average citizens expendable income than it is today
the actual number itself is fucking meaningless, it's relative percentage of your earnings and the cost of living is all that matters

redditbob corporate shilling format

to push for 80 bucks games that aren't even on cartridges

sold by the wealthiest corporation in the game world

which is selling outdated hardware like if it was gold

ignoring how wages never followed inflation and the standards of living are so low people put most of their income in food and rent and everything else is ignored because everyone's on the verge of falling into debt hell

nigger board for nigger brained npcs preyed upon by shills...
...Of course it's the board with the daily AI slop thread.

And during those times...

Purchasing power was FAR higher

You could earn money when you were a teenager cutting lawns or working fastfood.

Many places paid higher than minimum wage, which when adjusted for inflation and purchasing power minimum wage back then is closer to $25 today.

The price was the actual fucking price and not just the 'starter price' before $100+ DLCs or mtx mechanics.

Renting was a thing.

Demos were a thing.

Playing games for free at a public setup was a thing.

The "every single basic bitch ass job requires a college degree" wasn't nearly as bad as it was today.

Daily mundane things, from necessities to takout food, was far cheaper and also far higher quality.

Everyone singes out anime posters but all cartoon posters (weeb or west) are super fucking retarded. Sponge Bob posters in particular have been pretty much nothing but asinine since the past 5 or so years. Ignoring the fact the government lies about inflation and unemployment everyone ignores actual purchasing power and general quality of goods.

the cart with the game is already more valuable than what nintendo is offering with the switch 2

I personally think Odyssey and both zelda games are worse off because they're open world.

This is like saying you shouldn't complain about a $2,500 gaming PC because the first ever computer was priced at $487,000.

Won't get Trump get rid of those?

wait what the fuck do you think is happening? nintendo didn't decide to stop selling physical versions of their games.

Without a hint of irony the world would be better if calculators costed that much

Spongeaids posters are the same shills working on plebbit where spongeshit is popular, it's just a useful vector for them to push propaganda.

based neetchad making wagies steam from their ears

Yet they're already rolling out the same gay shit about putting game codes for download

Inflation is when too much money chases too few goods. Normalfags confuse it with price increases. Wages increasing are inflationary, prices increasing are not.

expensive cartridge format vs cheap high capacity discs that can play CDs

mini disc vs high capacity discs that can play dvds for the same price

Gamecubes were paperweights once Wii released.

did you just see some random thing without looking into the context?

even the most spoiled kids at my class didn't own more than 10 games

That's because you were in poorfag land.
Most spoiled kid in my class showed up with a PSP not that long after it released with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Thankfully he was also fat so we just bullied him for that.

Okay kike. Keep maniuplating the numbers, maybe the golems will keep believing you

The Future Is Here

this was printed almost 30 years ago

get me out of here

fake news, fake 90s kid, or 90s kid had retard parents. The block buster meta existed where you would ALWAYS buy used, which was usually 50% or more off guranteed. So used games were $20-$30 even if they came out that same year. You would also get it inbox with manual and everything, but if it didnt have a box or manual and instead you got the block buster case then it was even cheaper. And this was block buster, a major chain at the time. There were so many copy cat video stores around that you could get your games and movies for even cheaper than what block buster was selling for.

Instruction books with tons of art, item, weapon, armor and enemy descriptions made it worth it. Look at these pages from Diablo II's manual. That thing was nearly 50 pages chock full of awesome shit. Zelda manuals had incredible art. Mario manuals were fun to read about the new power ups. We didn't have cutscenes/cinematics back then either so you'd get the premise and initial hook through the manual. Shit was crafted with care and passion.

Not to mention got fucking annihilated that generation largely due to how far more expensive they were compared to the PlayStation. The "video games were actually le more expensive!" meme is union classism from breadtuber fans who probably grew up in upper class families. Their fans being unemployed welfare losers who have no fucking idea how hard it is to pay your way through life right now. There are a lot of interesting disconnects that point out the whole "theory vs practice" concept

Upper class yuppies who live in high income all white areas get all their impressions of "colored people" from school material and media, think the detest for them is just 'superstitious ignorance from lack of education'

The average white people who suffered living in an area that is majority nonwhite fucking hates them and are racist as all fuck.

Breadtubers who live off their family's money + Youtube and shadow government funding, and their welfare audience who literally post in communities that call themselves "anti work" and "communist" advocates for unions.

Blue color workers that actually do the rough and dangerous jobs that make our society function fucking hates the unions and wants them abolished.

Haven't read the thread but I remember that image from the bottom, those aren't america prices

I use Tootsie Rolls to monitor the economy/inflation. When I was a kid Tootsie Rolls were $0.01 each. Last time I checked they were $0.10 each. Now they're probably close to $0.25 each. Not talking bags of candy either. Talking the loose single ones on the bottom shelf of the candy aisle.

Okay just keep getting things wrong and looking like a jackass on an anonymous kyivian snipe hunting forum

Shut the fuck up kike

and what does that have to do with msrp?

PSP

this thread is about the 90s, zoomer
in the 2000s kids started to get more spoiled in general

Because the manufacturing and distribution of physical products costs money. The point of digital downloads was to remove that factor and thus reduce the costs (in addition to generally being more convenient if we're talking about a post-Steam online storefront state), but big companies are proving that they don't give a damn about that and just want your money.

The 90s was 26 years ago. Things change.

In fact I remember exactly what it was, it was Canadian, and CAD was worth like 3/4 USD back in the 90s. This is fake garbage

in the 2000s kids started to get more spoiled in general

Yeah, kids got more spoiled during a global recession.

No one bought games at 90 USD in the 1990s, they went on sale down to 19.99 USD within a year.
Even then they were expensive.
Ain't no way Lil Cleetus and Lil Tyrone and Lil Paco had dads shelling out the equivalent to 200 USD for a video game in 1995.

these are CANADIAN DOLLARS

dishonest lying fuck faggot

not a single 90s kid got their games at MSRP retard, infact all of them got it FOR FREE. So OPs logic does not apply here anyways

nigger, i cannot keep pace with how far you're taking that goalpost

not mowing the lawn 40 times to buy a copy of Virtual Bart

You weren't a 90s kid if you weren't retarded slave labor

Thank you for reminding me that my dad was making more in the 80's at a machining shop with zero education or training than I am now with a bachelor's degree in STEM, and he also regularly got paid overtime and double pay on the weekends. And that currency was worth more than twice as much as it is now. And cars and housing were a fraction of what they were now. And women weren't fat.

brother I shovelled snow from around 100 driveways to afford OoT

My brother was a drug addict who was stuck in a vicious cycle of getting games/consoles and then selling them to get his fix. It only got worse when he ran out of his own vidya to sell at Gamestop, and it was always vidya because we didn't live in a pawn shop neighborhood. One day while the rest of the family was at church he broke into my sister's room and stole both her playstation 1 and 2, her gba sp (which she bought with her own money after saving up for a whole year), and all of her games/accessories, threw them into a shopping cart, and wheeled everything off before disappearing for a few days, probably whacked out of his mind in an alley or drug den. When he came back he acted like nothing happened, and my parents didn't want to do anything about it because they were scared he'd leave the family or become even worse. From then on I kept all of my games in my parents' closet because he never dared to look through their belongings and get an actual punishment for it.
My dad finally forced him out forever after he did acid and stabbed our dog to death. He hasn't lived with us in 9 years, he turned homeless but still keeps coming back every few days to ask for money.

gaming in the 90s

unless your 50
you did not pay those prices with YOUR money

Sorry your parents didnt love you and made you do slave child labor so that they had an excuse to not give you a childhood, but those niche cases does not count.

Relatable. I spent a central Florida summer doing heavy yard work on a doctor's ranch. The reward for those weeks of sweat and blood was a hand-me-down PC with a 486, 4MB of RAM, and a 500MB hard drive.

Wrong. I got summer jobs for games. Is working a foreign concept for zoomers?

Who the hell cares what they used to cost, video games are worth, at most, $20. Any more and i pirate, simple as.

muh dlc

Retarded argument, because now that Nintendo set the precedent for 80$ games, you know goddamn well that all games now will cost that much even /without/ DLC.

money was worth more

cartridges cost more to make

fewer customers in general

game itself was a full game instead of part of one with the expectation that I'll be nickel and dimed with MTX

while we're on the subject, how about the role developers and publishers play by irresponsibly ballooning the budgets for these games
if you budgeted properly, you wouldn't need to sell 8 million copies just to see the black

me buying digital games for 20 years that are half the price

Those are Canadian prices btw, they'd be 20 dollars lower for the us

based, neetbucks is the barebone of this economy because keep moving the money, while waggies stay savng it to afford a house (lol, that never gonna happen losers)

REDDITBOB REDDITBOB FUCK YOU REDDITBOB

glad they drew the line somewhere. I know some peoples family who never do

A brand new Toyota Tacoma in 1995 was like 11,000. Don't look up how much more you pay by comparison for a substantially uglier, shittier version of the same truck now.

but those niche cases does not count

You don't know anything about the United States and its deep rooted culture based around Calvinism

and made you do slave child labor so that they had an excuse to not give you a childhood

The current lives of hedonism most people have been leading since 2000 are a new thing.
That's actually probably why dating has fallen off so hard in a roundabout way. Most kids since then haven't really been raised to work or struggle and so aren't accustomed to failure, and become afraid of it.
That and most governments don't let you hop the border to get drunk and fuck their women anymore (t. Niagara Falls Canadian).

Im American tho, black even. everyone in our school got games for free from parents, usually for bdays and christmas. Maybe you just didnt have good grades anon.

Nintendr*nes still defending overpriced games

Sasel largo de aquí

your taxes still pay for my hrt btw :)

you first tourist.

black even

ah so I was right. Niggers do not comprehend working

zoom zoom, borrowing/trading games was a thing back in time, i played a lot of SNES games without spending a dime, zoomers are unable to make "friends" without discord

Sounds like jealousy anon. Working 8 hours cutting peoples grass for $40 isnt "hard work", its slave labor. You may aswell be Chinese at that point.

Working 8 hours cutting peoples grass for $40 isnt "hard work", its slave labor

Nigger I would have WISH I was making that much money in 96. Your complete lack of understanding how much that was back then shows you are either too young to be around back then or still have a poor understanding of the value of a dollar

rentals were a thing

Another 90s kid whos childhood was stolen.

Geez, the fact that you guys think a 8 or 10 year old working the entire summer ito afford 1 game s a good thing is some high level brain washing.

Only white people have that kind of attitude, lets be honest. Even the Chinese atleast wait till their kids 13 before forcing them into the resteraunt.

Are you fucking retarded?

Manufacturing and shipping a physical cartridge involves gathering the chips needed for each one and then moving them to stores.
These modern games cost less than ever to manufacturer and ship, yet they are getting more expensive because... they can't handle their finances correctly during development, I guess.
Not sure why you are defending this.

$40 wasnt alot of money in the 90s retard. I got that as a free allowance for school. You were just oppressed.

I still remember when some kid left his game case at my mom's job and nobody came looking for it for a week so she gave it to me. Had shit like Golden Sun 2 and Super Mario World.

Eventually traded them to Gamestop for maybe $15 in credit.

The only games parents bought in the 90's game from the $10 discount bin.

negro calling me oppressed

You know what I will take that if for nothing else it will give a funny story. Peace

Idk anon. I mean, if you have to work for money in the 90s to get games and the negro didnt, then it means your parents were more poor than the negro.

No my parents were just Calvinist. Our house was a 7 bedroom McMansion

I live in Mexico
Back in the 90s 1 dollar was a little bit less than 8 MXN, today it's a little bit more than 20 MXN
A game back then would have to cost TWO HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS to match the price of a digital Switch 2 game. A game back then would also be an actual full game, and come with a nice box, instruction manual, maybe a map too.
So yeah, go fuck yourself.
Retarded bootlicker.

Switch 2 is going to filter out poor browns BASED BASEDBASEDBAAAAASED

Weird, in the 90s PS1 and even N64 games dropped to $40 and $50. It's almost like there wasn't a price standard with SNES and Master System.
Can anyone explain that?

Digital is pretty standard and available to more consumers, yet they're more expensive than physical games.

Those games were mostly complete as well, they didn't get DLC or season passes.
Though any bugs in the final release people had to deal with them.

They figured out the price that would get people to buy it earlier before it went to the bargain bin. By 1998 or so it was pretty standard to see 49.99 USD for new games. Before that it wasn't uncommon for the price to drop a lot after release to get people to buy it. My parents always waited 1 year to buy a new console or games for this reason. Parents waited and the game would drop pretty quickly. This was common for a long time, "greatest hits" on Playstation was a game going to 19.99 in like a year or so.

pretty much were I am at. Why stop at 450? Let the console sell for 1k

The market should and does dictate the price of games. If prices are too high, especially for a bad game, publishers will have to do something.
I saw Suicide Squad on sale for $5 last week.
Nintendo dropped the price of the 3DS by 30% when it wasn't selling as they expected.

We all know how well the Steam Deck and ROG Ally series are selling.

In the 90s, the cost of a "meal' at a fast food restaurant was $5.99. It now costs $12.99. The cost of a sumptuous meal (bread basket, house salad, steak over wild rice) at a real restaurant was $11.99. It now costs $36.95.

My family bought our two bedroom apartment for $60,000. It's now $500,000.

My parents together made over $100,000. They now make 0.

Yes, I still have my receipt for Super Mario RPG. $64.95.

stabbed the dog on acid

Either that shit was laced with something else or he's a psycho, because that's not the kind of thing acid does to a person

it's all nintendo

49.99 was the standard for everybody else, it took them until the gamecube to follow suit.
BUT NO ONE MENTIONS THAT PART I WONDER WHY

nintendo works really hard

their games are just better, so its worth the money

they are finally giving us the features we asked them for

the games are going to run better if we give them more money

you idiots think corporations care about you. you are a piggy bank to them, happily pouring your money into
over priced OLDER games being sold as launch titles with performance patches are dlc

Fuck off retard.

The cost of living and food has increased with inflation to pay staff which increased development cost. Now that gamers have eliminated physical, now games are catching up with inflation. Unless you can find a way to fix the bloated budgets and long development times, then yes, the price increase is actually necessary. That's how inflation works. One thing increasing in price affects the other thing so they have to increase in price to accommodate it.

Thought they were going to get woke out of videogames

End up being priced out of owning a fucking Nintendo console

Just wait till you see what the next Call of Duty costs. You guys have royally fucked yourselves

how about

price point being higher is good because it filters out the DBZ spics

I don't remember that any C&C, Tomb Raider 3, Total Annihilation, Unreal, Red Faction or Need for Speed 2/3 cost more than $50 at launch

Retards like OP aren't worth arguing with. Just hit them with one of these.

Wrong
Price point being higher is good because it motivates hackers to start working on CFW faster
Tick tock tendies, hope you're ready for yet another gen where you fund all of my vidya lmao. Hope you've already preordered my copy of Prime 4

90 dollars for a videogame with 1999 money.
thats like 170 bucks today.
im so happy i wasnt a 90's wagie. imagine going to work for 2 weeks straight just to afford one game.

I was alive in the 90s games were 39.99-49.99

these prices are canadian right?

video games should be the LEAST of your problems now,everything else is 10x more fucked.

If they didn't drop their prices when manufacturing got cheaper, they don't get to raise them when they get more expensive. Take the lower margins bitch.

muh inflation

ignoring the fact that

making a videogame wasnt automatically a surefire way to make money

cost of production was insanely high, business operation optimization and consulting work just started to happen so things like chipsets, boards and such would cost so much more than they would today

you had to actively beta test your game before the launch; quickfixes via download patches werent a thing

etc

I hate all the retards who use ye olde prices or inflation as some kind of "gotcha!"
redditors dont understand economics

And y'know the most important part...
YOU COULD RENT TO PLAY YOUR GAMES, AND MOST DID

hmmm. Both true. High console price is good for keeping out browns and high game price point means custom firmware sooner

I don't the cost of eggs back in the 90's was so high. Pretty sure they didn't have to get payment plans for Taco Bell back then either

I wonder if it could be the english-speaking one perchance

I would sooner kill myself than become a wojakposter

That ad of the $80 SNES games has spread misinformation for so many years just because it was one business in particular that was spiking the fuck out of their prices. It's a good thing they went under as punishment for their crimes then, and their crimes now.

The consoles were cheaper then to compensate. The SNES was $100 [$80 on sale] by that point. SNES with a game was $130 range. Genesis was sub $100 with a pack-in game.

Switch 2 doesn't even come with the welcome/hardware tutorial game

boomerman doesn't understand inflation

changing/raising prices of goods only legitimizes the absurd amounts of hoarded wealth by jews and billionaires so I don't like it

All the seething responses to OP lmao

The SNES was $100

No it fucking wasn't. Not at launch. Very famously it was much more expensive than the SNES which made cheap parents complain nationwide

Why are SpongeBob text memes so fucking dogshit?

They are, that fucker knows what he's doing too because he cropped the Canadian store's name and branding out of the picture.

Franchise that was only good for 2/26 years

What did you expect?

back then you got 1 game each year on christmas, and play the shit out of it
why would anyone choose to buy a console and play one or only a few games a year? when they can just buy a computer and play a new game every week or more, using the power of piracy and emulation (or xbox game pass if you are a little scared bitch)

or he's a psycho, because...

That guy sounds like a psycho before even getting to that part. RIP pupper :(
Reminds me of this crazy girl that lived beneath me that would break the screen out of her window to smoke weed and scream at her parents, she seemed legitimately nuts lol. The police were there like 1-4 times a month for probably two years. It sounded like the mother would always have her side and the father was trying to get his daughter off some ssri's or something but the police said he had no say in that if the mother wanted her to be on them. Poor guy

Dumb frogposter.

OoT

15 million units

What the fuck am I reading? These numbers aren't right at all. Both OoT and Tomb Raider sold 7 million and change.

I actually don't mind the route they've gone. I enjoy Nosferatu and Slappy.

God bless you anon. $59.99 for Yoshi’s Island was so worth it back in the 90s. Still got the cartridge too.

What physical games do shits for brain PC users have from the 90s that still works? Oh yeah, nothing. They own nothing and they love it. They parrot their McDonalds Deck OLED and it’ll be in a landfill before the Switch 2 stops being supported. Embarrassing. Really.

I enjoy (once funny joke milked to death)

and ugly self insert OCs forced into the main cast

Zoom Zoom

Pretty sure they're in CAD and the Canadian Dollar was much weaker relative to USD in the 90's compared to say when 6th gen consoles were out and they probably had like $55 games then or something.
Most old retro forums I've browsed say that SNES games in the US were like $65 aside from JRPGs which were noticeably more. But my first console gen was 5th gen so I can't really attest to that. I remember seeing N64 games at usually $50-65 depending upon how new and popular they were, but that was also like 2nd half of thr console's lifespan; I heard when it was brand new things like Shadows of the Empire were like $70-$80. Same thing with Yoshi's Story despite that being like a 4 hour game, good job Nintendo :) . Glad my parents never bought me that and I rented it lmao

Maybe I was too poor but I don't remember anyone buying brand new retail games for MSRP back in the 90s
We all bought second hand or traded with friends.

lel

What physical games do shits for brain PC users have from the 90s that still works?

I wasn't evens major PC gamer and I have several titles on CDrom that still works on the old thinkpad I own

True, I remember seeing even at places like Target they gave significantly more shelf space to Sony over Nintendo. I don't even mean because you can fit so many more CD's stacked together but just the width portion of shelf space was nearly twice as much. But Nintendo didn't have people pirating their games so they came out ahead haha , just like on the next gen teehee

you could just pay 5 dollars to rent killer instinct and beat it over the weekend

Playstation's adoption of CDs instead of cartidges is what caused the prices to drop and standardized the industry into ~$60 which led to a video game boom in the 2000s as shown here . Making games more expensive despite not having any physical copies and in the era of game sharing is legitimately motherfucking stupid. The average kid did not have a Neo Geo priced console with Neo Geo priced games.

I remember having a cool little manual with artwork from Link's Awakening DX. I don't think there was one for the Oracle games though

gaming was also much worse off in the 90's from the company's perspective. I'm Sure there's no correlation between price and revenue at all though right even if we ignore the whole issue with inflation and purchasing power.

I know I'm okay with a great reset of the industry crashing and only the indies left to scuttle through the wreckage but are you?

The 90s was still companies and Gen X-ers trying to carve their way into an industry that didn't reach its peak until the 2000s. Most of not all gaming practices were set in stone by the late 2000s.

they got cheaper to produce. Games have gotten easier to make for sure, but the scale and complexity has outpaced that significantly.

I remember playing Snake on my dad's Nokia

Anon Babble is a board that has unanimously been a strong defender for games not to cost a third world country's entire GDP to make.

I wouldn't doubt if Nintendo double dipped in that claim with the WW preorder having the port of OoT or the standalone OoT/MM port they sold on the GC

No.

What is less complex than CS, Vampire Suvivors, Minecraft, Candy Crush, or Celeste?

it was a luxury most people just went to blockbuster and got some random game for the weekend beat it then returned it, now theres no such rental and you dont even own your games now.

It's not just Nintendo. The Tomb Raider figures are wrong as well. So are Gran Turismo and FF7. That list is complete nonsense.

The image that destroyed Anon Babble

This is what Tendies really believe kek

You weren’t even born in the 90s
If you were, you’d know everyone rented their games anyways.

I lived in a 3rd world country and the price was $40. This is a scam.

You bought a bunch of woke western shit. Any one nintendo game really is worth 10x what you have right there.

new technologies

Nintendo

lmao NES and SNES were fucking outdated when they were released. The average PC98 had beefier specs, but a zoomzoom like you would not know this.

speaking of pc98, those game prices were something else

Oh yeah, $80-ish was the average for most games back then, no matter how shitty. No wonder most of those companies went bankrupt within a year.

the snes was a piece of shit tech wise

Expensive cartridge prices are the reason why Nintendo lost their dominant market position during the PSX and N64 generation. Granted this was due more to the production fees driving away third party developers but the end result is still higher prices for consumers. This ad is a terrible argument to justify Nintendo's price hike, do you really think a customer will see this ad and not notice Playstation games are $20 cheaper?

>What physical games do shits for brain PC users have from the 90s that still works?

I have a doom floppy disk from 93 that still works as for 2 years ago

BECAUSE I NO PUT U PLODUCT ON TLANSPORT SHIP FO FLEE U FUKSTUPID AMELICAN PIG U FAT GWEILO U TAKE GAME AND NOT PUT ON SHIP U PAY FIRST OR I THLOW U OVASIDE!

In both cases I see third party releases trying to squeeze in higher prices than first party Nintendo releases.
I cannot imagine that today.

encourage games to be expensive because it keeps the troons out

That won't work, they either get decent paying jobs in the tech industry or they live off the state/their parents.

I would understand if it was like 1/4th the price max, and generational store close downs weren't a thing.

Back in the 90s a single working class man could also sustain a wife, 2 kids and a house.
Some stuff changed

What physical games do shits for brain PC users have from the 90s that still works? Oh yeah, nothing. They own nothing and they love it.

You can run just about any game on either VM or DOSBox but a lot of people are too dumb to use them.

9/11 was a national tragedy.

one ultraman, please

Isn’t that what Game Pass is though?

I 100% guarantee you that the person that made this image wasn't alive during the 90s.

based power to the people

I bought ff7 for 18€
original

fake image

Is interesting, but adjusting to inflation aren't they pretty expensive?

Back in 2006 I bought a Mario Party 7 GameCube bundle that came with Pikmin 2 and an extra controller at TRU, all for $99.

Insane how tendies instantly flip on an issue when nintendo does it and expect everyone to be as cult like as them.

Most poorfags back then rented or shared games with friends

Games were one of the only things that kinda didn't follow inflation until very recently, now its course correcting.
Everything is now fucked, enjoy having to be a wagie until you die.

I remember ps1 games being 50€ at most, the most expensive ones
usually they were like 30-40€

bait thread
cost of living is 1000x higher now

inu jk sexo

neetbux maxxers get housing for 1/3rd of their neetbux typically. as well as food stamps and free healthcare

I don't care, I just pirate everything.

The playstation games at bestbuy were $20 and N64 games were $50. I have no idea where these prices come from when people post this stuff.

New mainline pokemon game is going to cost $90

Its still going to look and run like complete ass

Tendies will defend it

bait thread

no way

So by that logic anything that even was expensive isn't allowed to get cheaper due to cost of production lowering. So according to tendies anti-biotics should logically cost a fortune, it would only be fair after all.

based

Sorry they had to raise prices to make up for all those switch games I emulated. Thanks for footing the bill tendies.

zoom zoom is too young to remember video game rental stores

based

technology gets cheaper as it advances?????

Probably a psycho beforehand, a relative of mine took acid and he's been insane and homeless for like 30 years now. He was definitely fucked up beforehand, but it clearly just broke him.

The current economy is parasitic so it's a parasite on a parasite.....

being older than 35 and still playing videogames

LMOA

Better me than Isreal

fpbp

Back then it was because of the cartridges being expensive
As soon as they went to CD they went down to $50

They technically weren't
They were that expensive because of the cartridge technology

SD Carts aren't that expensive by comparison, especially not after Switch sold 150M, so Ninty has no excuse

""""outgrowing"""" your hobbies

LMAO

In the 90s games had color manuals

This is a lie unless you were living in Japan
Muttmericans cheaped out so it was usually monochrome

uhh earthbound was like 40 dollars a week after release because literally no one bought it.

Shitalians aren't related to Ancient Romans
Stop LARPing, you're an Arab

how do people become NEETs exactly? surely the government money is going to dry up?

50 dollars in 96 is like 100 dollars today

based
but even more based if your NEETbux get pulled

No one cares.
Games were 60 dollars last year, I am not going to just accept a fucking 50% increment overnight.

actually, games have been 70 for awhile now.

man, this is why nobody wanted a shiturn. lol

Sorry sister, I'm not buying a new game for $80

Would these "people" kill themselves if america pulled jobless nigger funding?

A program doesn't need to cost as much as a cartridge.

v always loses their shit when you point out most people here are poor

actually the internet in general is poors galore

don't care, still not paying $80

GIWTWM

Games you bought, maybe.

Absolutely fucking based, look at those wagies seethe.
The only response that gets nearly as much anger is pirating, for the same reasons

me who was gaming in the 90s

sure you were zoom zoom

You'll never get back those days your friends calling you on the land line and telling you they finally got the copy of golden eye that took forever to get returned

Simpler times really are better times

yes but that was when they gave you cartridges, box, manuals, there was a big elaboration for the price of the physical
now that same price they put on the digital, and there is no justification for it, only greedy companies

/thread

all calculators around the world are now 995 dollars minimum

nothing changes because phones and computers still have calculator apps in them

retard.

Based. I wish I was autistic enough to justify getting disability.

It's 109 dollarydoos