New generation game prices

From the Odyssey to the PS5. The figures were determined using the U. Bureau of Labor Statistics ' inflation calculator. Click through the gallery below for the full list of adjusted console launch prices from the past five decades, or scroll down to the chart for a full overview. Console Launch Prices With Inflation. Have you played Xbox Series X?

YES NO. Was this article informative? Despite increases to the minimum wage — both on the federal and state levels — purchasing power has hardly budged in 40 years. Shifting from tactics to strategy, said Osaki, game makers have a much bigger perspective of the world of gaming.

Osaki said that the addressable market for next-generation video game consoles is about million consumers. Meanwhile, the PC gaming market is more like million to million consumers. The mobile gaming market, on the other hand, is upward of 1. Ultimately, console games are just a small piece of the pie. Why not bump up the price and make it a little bigger? The fact is that Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox players show up year after year to buy the newest games at full price.

Of course, the current console generation left the major players in very different positions in the overall market. Whereas if, God forbid, PlayStation and Sony Interactive Entertainment went away tomorrow, Sony overall as a business and as a corporation — as a publicly traded company, as a going concern — they would be much more at risk.

So you look at it from that standpoint, financially, and you also look at the fact that PS4 was much more successful on a global scale versus Xbox One, and you say that, in a weird way, Microsoft has one strategic advantage over Sony right now, which is: They can actually rewrite the playbook. It allows consumers to purchase the games they want to play now, and opt into a next-generation video game console at a later date without having to buy the same games over again.

Microsoft is pulling out all the stops, because it has far less to lose this time around than Sony does. The same can be said as it relates to publisher Take-Two. Next-generation consoles are going to feature lots of technical innovation. Ray tracing and 4K gaming for days.

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