Nintendo Wii U

[Rokku]

I remember paying close to $80 for FFVI when it released, supposedly the amount of content in the game was grounds to charge more than the usual 60-70 dollar price point for it.

[Kaisha]

Pretty much every SNES game with a co-processor chip in the cart (ex. Super FX powered games) were $80-100 where I lived when younger. I know very well that Super Mario RPG ran my parents $99. Thankfully I put a good 150 hours into that game, but my money's worth.


Gaming nowadays is fucking cheap if you don't have that "gotta buy it day 1" mindset. Most games are $60-70 new in Canada, and drop to $40-50 in a couple months. A few months more at the $20-30 price point is when I nab most of my games.

[dejet]

Pretty much every SNES game with a co-processor chip in the cart (ex. Super FX powered games) were $80-100 where I lived when younger. I know very well that Super Mario RPG ran my parents $99. Thankfully I put a good 150 hours into that game, but my money's worth.


Gaming nowadays is fucking cheap if you don't have that "gotta buy it day 1" mindset. Most games are $60-70 new in Canada, and drop to $40-50 in a couple months. A few months more at the $20-30 price point is when I nab most of my games.

Thats for new games too. If your on the watch you can nab a game off ebay used dirt cheap. Outside the random CoD game that for whatever reason is 40+ used for two years...

[Rokku]

Pretty much every SNES game with a co-processor chip in the cart (ex. Super FX powered games) were $80-100 where I lived when younger. I know very well that Super Mario RPG ran my parents $99. Thankfully I put a good 150 hours into that game, but my money's worth.


Gaming nowadays is fucking cheap if you don't have that "gotta buy it day 1" mindset. Most games are $60-70 new in Canada, and drop to $40-50 in a couple months. A few months more at the $20-30 price point is when I nab most of my games.

Yeah, that sounds about right cost wise with SNES games having been something like 60-80ish as far as I can remember in the US.

[Caiyuo]

Now I'm suddenly bewildered at just how much my parents potentially dropped on that SNES with 10 games me and my brothers got for Christmas

[Isiolia]

Now I'm suddenly bewildered at just how much my parents potentially dropped on that SNES with 10 games me and my brothers got for Christmas

Not all games were that much. There were also plenty that launched in the $50-60 range, or even at $40. They also went down in price regularly, unlike later generation first-party titles. It was more that the more data you had, the more memory chips needed, and thus the more expensive the cartridge was to produce, netting plenty of $70+ games too. N64 was the same way, which didn't exactly do it any favors when PSX games were launching at $45 or so.

Factor in inflation, and today's games are quite a bit cheaper by comparison.

Gaming nowadays is fucking cheap if you don't have that "gotta buy it day 1" mindset. Most games are $60-70 new in Canada, and drop to $40-50 in a couple months. A few months more at the $20-30 price point is when I nab most of my games.

Same. I only rarely buy games at release these days. I've got too big a backlog to justify buying many first-day, especially if they'd just be joining the pile.

[Ayn]

Phantasy Star IV was in the $90 range when it first came out (in the U.S., so I can only imagine how expensive it was in Japan).

Some racing game for the Genesis was about $120 when it came out. My friend's dad got it for him, and both of them were so excited about it and played it endlessly. I was just like "..$120 for this?"

[Devolver]

Am I the only one having a hard time getting excited for this?

[Odesseiron]

Am I the only one having a hard time getting excited for this?

Nope. I don't really care, at the moment. I'm more the 'seeing is believing" type. Good as Nintendo is in some things, them making a hardcore system or whatever sounds like an April Fools joke. This whole ipad controller thing sounds strange as hell too.

[Azull]

Did half of you buy your games from Funco Land or something? They would always overcharge for new games by a lot.

[Katlan]

Nope. I don't really care, at the moment. I'm more the 'seeing is believing" type. Good as Nintendo is in some things, them making a hardcore system or whatever sounds like an April Fools joke. This whole ipad controller thing sounds strange as hell too.

it sounds retarded. why can't they just make a gaming system w/o a gimmick. Its gonna be annoying as fuck when games have mandatory controller support and you have to look from the screen to the controller to see stuff.

[Kaisha]

If anything, at least it'll have third-party games this time around.................until PS4/Xbox1080 come out.

[Dezzimal]

Co workers and peers have been looking to N for an answer to 360/PS3.

Oh you mean the Nintendo Wii? The console that has nearly outsold both of them combined?

[Pikarya]

Oh you mean the Nintendo Wii? The console that has nearly outsold both of them combined?

While true, you have to remember the cost of the machine in general is much cheaper. Along with the demographic stigma the system carries marketing wise.

In the past few months though, Wii sales have severely declined. The PS3 has sky rocketed. My guess is due to the demands/fears of Sony clearing old stock to make a major revision of the "unhackable console" (lol) which is rumored to come out later this year supposedly.

[Hiryo]

While true, you have to remember the cost of the machine in general is much cheaper. Along with the demographic stigma the system carries marketing wise.

Dont forget the fact that most gamers believe that the only place games are sold is gamestop. The fact is that there are many more retailers that sale games and the people who shop there are the kind of people who will buy a wii. So, besides the price difference, there is simply more foot-traffic in Walmart where people will definitely buy a Wii over a PS3 or Xbox.

[Gryffes]

PS3 price stealth dropped today from £240-250 to £200 across most uk retailers.

[Odin'sLaw]

PS3 price stealth dropped today from £240-250 to £200 across most uk retailers.

i'm lucky i got a £300 pack deal for 210 last year due to a family member working at john lewis's

i'm looking forward to seeing the next Console if I'm honest I'd like to see what Nintendo can cook up and if it'll still be a relatively priced machine and not £500 at launch (fuck that shit)

[Serra]

Supposedly leaked images. Can't verify if they're true or not, but figure you guys might be interested:
http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/22/ninten...trollers-leak/

[6souls]

read about that last week. you'd think someone would have a better camera by now. every Chinese leak pic is grainy as fuck.

[Scythiroth]

Looks pretty much how I thought it would. Kind of curious how expensive those controllers will be though. >.>

I'm actually impressed they are going back to controllers though, unless motion controls will be used in some games, and others will use controllers. Which isn't really too bad of an idea, as long as I don't need to use motion controls in games that really shouldn't have them.