VeryGooster
Banned
BOMBA. SEGA NHL All Star Hockey '95 is $20 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00002STAD/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00002STAD/?tag=neogaf0e-20
$60 for Super Mario 64 back in '96, is $85 today.
You know what I notice about this ad, compared to almost anything you see now. With the exception of Super Mario 64, and the N64 (it was the year of it's release, so it's no surprise they would want to highlight it...) but everything seems to have equal space in the ad. They're showing all kinds of games, different genres, different systems. This is such a great ad, and it reminds me of a time when gaming was so much more fun and diverse.
Now...you look in an ad with video games, and a handful of select games are pushed up front and center. "Get the latest Call of Duty!" or "Madden!" and everything else is just bunched together, and put into a small picture in the corner.
Prices were all over the place back then.
Such beautiful controllers in so many colors! I wish controllers were the same price!
The current market has allowed such good price discrimination that initial game prices will go up and periodic deals will get the sales the game would have gotten if it launched cheaper. So in a way to game industry thinks so, it just also thinks that it can exploit that some customers are willing to buy limited editions or 20 dollars of launch DLC.I don't buy many games anymore @ $60, b/c I game less. But to say that costs to make games hasn't gone up is wrong. Yea we can argue if games were cheaper they would sell more and so on, but the industry doesn't think so.
They used to throw around the term 'realistic graphics' like candy.
Ok, we still do.
Yup, that is why I get tired of some complaining about game prices now. I remember back in the early 90's, many games were $60 and sometimes more. I paid $60 for Super Mario Bros. 3 on NES in 1992.
Weren't cartridges vastly more expensive to produce then CDs? That was part of the reason PS1 could get away with charging 40 bucks for brand new games, as opposed to 70 for SNES and Genesis. So the whole 'omg 85 dollars for a game!' doesn't really hold any water. Costs have come way down, so they would never need to charge that to make the same profit.
And people are bitching about this generation's prices.
Reminds me of this Best Buy ad from 1996:
You're right. The only cost that goes into making a game is manufacturing the medium it's stored on...
Are you serious? I'm guessing there are a lot of preteens on GAF. Something tells me it might be the majority. >_>I was only 11 months old. >_>
Look at the bullshots nintendo used for their Mario on the first page
And let's have some name drops here for the informed (and I am uninformed). Can anyone name the athletes featured on the cover of:
- NHL 97
- NHL Faceoff 97
64 games were $60?!!
64 games were $60?!!
64 games were $60?!!