HOW MUCH DID NES GAMES COST PS4
Motorstorm creator Evolution Studios also announced the PS4 racing game Driveclub. The staff working on Killzone 1 for PlayStation 2 and Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3 topped out at 125 people. Discussing his studio’s work on Killzone: Shadow Fall, Hulst said that Guerilla’s development team on PS4 is 150 people. “It’s not as scary as some people led you to believe,” said Guerilla Games’ managing director Herman Hulst during a Sony developer roundtable on Wednesday. Will the spike in costs on PS4 be as dramatic? The rising costs of development during the last transition drowned many console developers, from Midway to Atari. Just because the console offers a lot of horsepower and accessibility to developers though, doesn’t mean it’s cheap to develop games for. That’s why Sony was so quick to emphasize how developer-friendly the PlayStation 4 architecture is during its Wednesday night press conference. It costs a whole lot of money to make a video game even for independent developers, and with the introduction of new, more computationally intensive games (better graphics, artificial intelligence, physics, etc.), that cost naturally grows. When announcing a new game console like the PlayStation 4, giant corporations like Sony need to convince developers that the machine is worth their while well before they try to convince game players. Note: this is not an exhaustive list of all of the gaming systems that have been released over the years - instead, I tried to focus on the most popular systems that had the biggest impact on the industry. On an inflation-adjusted basis, the two most expensive game consoles of all time are Mattel's Intellivision ($943.22) and the Panasonic 3DO ($950.79). The soon-to-be released Playstation 4 and Xbox 720 systems will likely have price tags of around $400, at least to start. In addition, Nintendo released their popular Wii system in 2006: Microsoft entered the fray in the 2000s with the release of their Xbox system, while Sony Playstation had two major releases (Playstation 2, Playstation 3). Major systems such as the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis 2, Playstation and Nintendo 64 were released during the '90s. There was a major video game boom in the '90s. Three of the other major game console systems that were released in the '80s, along with their original retail prices in '80s dollars and today's dollars: The NES had a retail price of $199, which works out to $458.53 in today's dollars. In 1983, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was first released. The ColecoVision retailed for $200 ($475.06 in today's dollars), while the Atari 5200 retailed for $269 ($638.95 in today's dollars). In the early '80s, we had the release of the ColecoVision and the Atari 5200 in 1982. That system originally had a retail price of $299 when it was released in 1979, which works out to $943.22 in today's dollars. The Mattel Intellivision was one of the next major console releases. That system would have cost you about $199 in 1977, which works out to $753.79 in today's dollars. One of the next major releases was the Atari 2600 in 1977. That works out to about $412 in today's dollars. For instance, did you know that there was a crash in the video game industry in the early '80s that put a number of companies out of business?Īs mentioned, the first game console was the Magnavox Odyssey. The video game industry has had its ups and downs. The question is - how have game console prices changed over that time? It's amazing how far video game consoles have come in 40 years. Over 40 years later, we are preparing for the release of the Xbox 720 and Playstation 4, which will both continue to push the boundaries of gaming. The Magnavox Odyssey, which was the first game console that could be connected to a TV, was originally released in 1972. Believe it or not, video game consoles have been around for over 40 years.
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