sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours ago“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisiswww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaredeathbird@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·3 hours agoWell no but also yes. An Atari 2600 was $160 in 1979. Cartridges were $25-40. Adjust for inflation and that’s $738.56 for a console and $115-184 per cartridge. Also minimum wage was $2.90 ($13.39). Median family income was $19,660 ($90,750.94). And it was new tech. So the prices have come down. There are a lot of amazing games that are cheap that you can play basically forever. Minecraft, Dead Cells, Skyrim, etc. But our expectations have risen while our wages have come down. So not wrong, but not right for the reasons you’d assume.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours ago An Atari 2600 was $160 in 1979. Cartridges were $25-40. Adjust for inflation and that’s $738.56 for a console and $115-184 per cartridge. Dunkey, is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q
minus-squaredeathbird@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoFirst time seeing this, watched the whole thing, no lies detected. (Though he didn’t touch on my point about income.)
Well no but also yes.
An Atari 2600 was $160 in 1979. Cartridges were $25-40. Adjust for inflation and that’s $738.56 for a console and $115-184 per cartridge.
Also minimum wage was $2.90 ($13.39). Median family income was $19,660 ($90,750.94).
And it was new tech.
So the prices have come down. There are a lot of amazing games that are cheap that you can play basically forever. Minecraft, Dead Cells, Skyrim, etc.
But our expectations have risen while our wages have come down.
So not wrong, but not right for the reasons you’d assume.
Dunkey, is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q
First time seeing this, watched the whole thing, no lies detected. (Though he didn’t touch on my point about income.)