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PS3 pulling a Saturn?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Otraotaku on August 29, 2006, 07:56:33 pm ---i was guesstimating chad, i was like 7-8 when it came out and the only one i knew who had one was my semi-rich cousin -.- i got my n64 that christmas,i knew it was 400, i just remember the N64 being 199$ or something. but still it was all around the same time to me... and i was a kid, lol...I never seen a sega CD till 3 years after... for its time it was way overpriced and that could very well be considered the equivalent of the PS3's price in modern economic value.
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The N64 was $299 at launch and didn't come with a game. The first wave of games were $60+ making the N64 effectively about $40 cheaper than the Saturn was but NOT coming with multiple games like the Saturn did. And you had to buy a memory card which was another $20 or so. Add that on and the N64 launch price was pretty much the same as the Saturn's launch price but actually came with less.
Truecade:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 30, 2006, 10:10:59 am ---
--- Quote from: Otraotaku on August 29, 2006, 07:56:33 pm ---i was guesstimating chad, i was like 7-8 when it came out and the only one i knew who had one was my semi-rich cousin -.- i got my n64 that christmas,i knew it was 400, i just remember the N64 being 199$ or something. but still it was all around the same time to me... and i was a kid, lol...I never seen a sega CD till 3 years after... for its time it was way overpriced and that could very well be considered the equivalent of the PS3's price in modern economic value.
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The N64 was $299 at launch and didn't come with a game. The first wave of games were $60+ making the N64 effectively about $40 cheaper than the Saturn was but NOT coming with multiple games like the Saturn did. And you had to buy a memory card which was another $20 or so. Add that on and the N64 launch price was pretty much the same as the Saturn's launch price but actually came with less.
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No, the N64 launched at $200, at least in the USA. I remember my best friend got his on launch day for $219.
Here's a nice little graph that shows console launch prices. (both actual and inflation adjusted) Notice that the only other recent console that comes close to the PS3 price tag was the Neo Geo and 3DO.
http://curmudgeongamer.com/2006/05/history-of-console-prices-or-500-aint.html
shmokes:
I seem to remember that the N64 was going to be $299 but at the last second it was launched at $249. Who knows? (Something tells me the answer to that question is Wikipedia)
ChadTower:
It certainly wasn't $199. Not on day 1.
I reject your source and substitute my own.
pointdablame:
i bought an N64 on launch day and I'm almost certain I paid $199 for the system.