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Hey, I'm back after a successful GAD winning DKR review. My first ever!
Still, i'm here to be serious, and serious I shall be.
The price of consoles is pleasantly droppng as Microsoft hits Nintendo and Nintendo hits Microsoft (ten time harder) yet it seems that games seem to be frozen at the ridiculous 40 pound mark. Now I know that places like SR rarely go above £40 but some high street stores still charge up to and over this, and even sometimes as high as £50 (shudders at the cartridge age). Still, shouldn't games, even though for a new console, go down in price proportional to the price of a console. Considering that for the cost of 3 games for the GC you could as good as buy the console, does that not sort of signify the end for these extortinate prices?
Take, for example, the N64. Part of the reason this console didn't do as well as it could of was because of the huge prices of carts instead of the still - bad - but - slightly - more - modest price of CD games. At one point I saw Conkers Bad Fur Day for £59.99 but I then saw the N64 for only £29.99. So you could literally buy 2 consoles for one game! And so many later games followed this, inlcuding the Mario Parties at £50 and the Pokemon Stadiums at that, or even higher prices.
Thankfully, though, Nintendo have taken the hint and moved nicely on to tiny little DVD's. And good for them! So little loading times...so little cost. But the problem remains at the hovering £40 mark, and in the case of newly released console, £44.99
Why? Must they?
And accesories follow the same pattern. Take PS2. Its memory card costs a ridiculous £30 whilst the GC one costs as little as £12.99! And it's only a memory card! You can't play it, watch it. It's just there, an accessory.
And with rip-off accesories like the Multi-Tap (why not 4 controller ports Sony, why?) it would seem that consoles may be falling down in price yet the games and accesories for them would seem to be stuck in the past
Oh, and remember those games where you needed and Expansion Pak for the N64! Perfect Dark = £50 + Exp. Pak at £30 = £80 to play 1 game on 1 console!!!!
Why?
Still, i'm here to be serious, and serious I shall be.
The price of consoles is pleasantly droppng as Microsoft hits Nintendo and Nintendo hits Microsoft (ten time harder) yet it seems that games seem to be frozen at the ridiculous 40 pound mark. Now I know that places like SR rarely go above £40 but some high street stores still charge up to and over this, and even sometimes as high as £50 (shudders at the cartridge age). Still, shouldn't games, even though for a new console, go down in price proportional to the price of a console. Considering that for the cost of 3 games for the GC you could as good as buy the console, does that not sort of signify the end for these extortinate prices?
Take, for example, the N64. Part of the reason this console didn't do as well as it could of was because of the huge prices of carts instead of the still - bad - but - slightly - more - modest price of CD games. At one point I saw Conkers Bad Fur Day for £59.99 but I then saw the N64 for only £29.99. So you could literally buy 2 consoles for one game! And so many later games followed this, inlcuding the Mario Parties at £50 and the Pokemon Stadiums at that, or even higher prices.
Thankfully, though, Nintendo have taken the hint and moved nicely on to tiny little DVD's. And good for them! So little loading times...so little cost. But the problem remains at the hovering £40 mark, and in the case of newly released console, £44.99
Why? Must they?
And accesories follow the same pattern. Take PS2. Its memory card costs a ridiculous £30 whilst the GC one costs as little as £12.99! And it's only a memory card! You can't play it, watch it. It's just there, an accessory.
And with rip-off accesories like the Multi-Tap (why not 4 controller ports Sony, why?) it would seem that consoles may be falling down in price yet the games and accesories for them would seem to be stuck in the past
Oh, and remember those games where you needed and Expansion Pak for the N64! Perfect Dark = £50 + Exp. Pak at £30 = £80 to play 1 game on 1 console!!!!
Why?
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Hey, I'm back after a successful GAD winning DKR review. My first ever!
Still, i'm here to be serious, and serious I shall be.
The price of consoles is pleasantly droppng as Microsoft hits Nintendo and Nintendo hits Microsoft (ten time harder) yet it seems that games seem to be frozen at the ridiculous 40 pound mark. Now I know that places like SR rarely go above £40 but some high street stores still charge up to and over this, and even sometimes as high as £50 (shudders at the cartridge age). Still, shouldn't games, even though for a new console, go down in price proportional to the price of a console. Considering that for the cost of 3 games for the GC you could as good as buy the console, does that not sort of signify the end for these extortinate prices?
Take, for example, the N64. Part of the reason this console didn't do as well as it could of was because of the huge prices of carts instead of the still - bad - but - slightly - more - modest price of CD games. At one point I saw Conkers Bad Fur Day for £59.99 but I then saw the N64 for only £29.99. So you could literally buy 2 consoles for one game! And so many later games followed this, inlcuding the Mario Parties at £50 and the Pokemon Stadiums at that, or even higher prices.
Thankfully, though, Nintendo have taken the hint and moved nicely on to tiny little DVD's. And good for them! So little loading times...so little cost. But the problem remains at the hovering £40 mark, and in the case of newly released console, £44.99
Why? Must they?
And accesories follow the same pattern. Take PS2. Its memory card costs a ridiculous £30 whilst the GC one costs as little as £12.99! And it's only a memory card! You can't play it, watch it. It's just there, an accessory.
And with rip-off accesories like the Multi-Tap (why not 4 controller ports Sony, why?) it would seem that consoles may be falling down in price yet the games and accesories for them would seem to be stuck in the past
Oh, and remember those games where you needed and Expansion Pak for the N64! Perfect Dark = £50 + Exp. Pak at £30 = £80 to play 1 game on 1 console!!!!
Why?
Still, i'm here to be serious, and serious I shall be.
The price of consoles is pleasantly droppng as Microsoft hits Nintendo and Nintendo hits Microsoft (ten time harder) yet it seems that games seem to be frozen at the ridiculous 40 pound mark. Now I know that places like SR rarely go above £40 but some high street stores still charge up to and over this, and even sometimes as high as £50 (shudders at the cartridge age). Still, shouldn't games, even though for a new console, go down in price proportional to the price of a console. Considering that for the cost of 3 games for the GC you could as good as buy the console, does that not sort of signify the end for these extortinate prices?
Take, for example, the N64. Part of the reason this console didn't do as well as it could of was because of the huge prices of carts instead of the still - bad - but - slightly - more - modest price of CD games. At one point I saw Conkers Bad Fur Day for £59.99 but I then saw the N64 for only £29.99. So you could literally buy 2 consoles for one game! And so many later games followed this, inlcuding the Mario Parties at £50 and the Pokemon Stadiums at that, or even higher prices.
Thankfully, though, Nintendo have taken the hint and moved nicely on to tiny little DVD's. And good for them! So little loading times...so little cost. But the problem remains at the hovering £40 mark, and in the case of newly released console, £44.99
Why? Must they?
And accesories follow the same pattern. Take PS2. Its memory card costs a ridiculous £30 whilst the GC one costs as little as £12.99! And it's only a memory card! You can't play it, watch it. It's just there, an accessory.
And with rip-off accesories like the Multi-Tap (why not 4 controller ports Sony, why?) it would seem that consoles may be falling down in price yet the games and accesories for them would seem to be stuck in the past
Oh, and remember those games where you needed and Expansion Pak for the N64! Perfect Dark = £50 + Exp. Pak at £30 = £80 to play 1 game on 1 console!!!!
Why?