History of Game Console Prices
| Curmudgeon Gamer has a fairly comprehensive set of graphs comparing the prices of the major game consoles of the last two decades. The author provides no analysis of the data, but it is easy to draw quite a few conclusions from the graphs. In terms of absolute dollars, game console prices have actually remained relatively stable, with the exception of a few anomalies such as the NeoGeo and the PlayStation 3. In relative dollars (adjusted for inflation), we see that console prices have in general been declining. Of particular note, Nintendo's consoles seem to drop in price with each successive generation. The comments on the article tend to focus negatively on factors that the graphs don't account for such as reductions in manufacturing and materials costs, but taken at face value they contain a lot of useful information nonetheless. At the very least they put the current console pricing hoopla into perspective. |











