Doing some quick math in my head and between what I spend on a games a year and how much I roughly play per year, my ratio comes to maybe 50 cents an hour. That doesn't seem extravagant to me. Gaming can be, especially PC, if you need to upgrade your hardware and monitor more often (and more expensively than just a console)
So you really think an OLED screen wouldn't have made the product more expensive? The only reason Nintendo didn't go with an OLED is to piss of their customers.
NS1 released in 2017 for $300 USD. What on earth has gotten cheaper these last seven years?
It was the next logical step for Nintendo considering that they scrapped Nintendo Selects/Player's Choice and they had their most successful generation. Games like Mario or Zelda would be discounted after being best-sellers but that's no longer the case. They will keep increasing prices as long as they can get away with it.
The complaining is typical of gamers on the internet. Are they not looking around and seeing what's going on in the world right now? (probably not)
I don’t know how it is for kids now but I was born in 89 and a kid having a N64 was big deal. Only one of my friends had one and he only had a few games and two controllers.
For the better part of a year I didn't own any games for the N64. We probably rented GoldenEye a dozen times, though.
There's a real interesting social phenomenon regarding that generation of gaming consoles where by all measurements the PS1 vastly outsold the N64, but because of the target demos, first-party IP, and third-party licensing differences between Sony and Nintendo, the N64 is much more didn't remembered as a nostalgic common reference point for millennials. If you had an N64, you owned or repeatedly rented Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, WCW/nWo Revenge, etc. By contrast, PlayStation had a lot of cheap shovelware and its heavy hitters were more genre-specific like FF7 or Gran Turismo. So while a lot more people owned PS1 than N64, like 80% of N64 households experienced the same games with the majority of their console use where the biggest PS1 games were owned by maybe 30% of users at most.Lots of games were in the $65-75 range, too. DK64 cost $80...or a full year's worth of allowance for me, which is a huge reason why that's my most hated game ever
It stinks, but I get it. Nintendo just needs to actually reduce the price on their own games at some point again. $80 for a new game I can stomach. $80 for a years old game? No. I wasn't doing that at $60 and I surely won't be doing it at $80. I mean beyond just making it 30% off for one week in the eShop. Mario Kart 64 was $60 at release and $40 within a couple years under the Players Choice banner. Not for a week, that was the new MSRP. Nintendo ditched the concept with the Switch and it still pisses me off.
Yeah. I was the one kid in my friend group with a N64. That said, I kinda hated it and wanted a PlayStation instead because games were too expensive for my library to ever grow beyond a handful of games....most of which were bargain bin shit because new games were so expensive that I got maybe one full price game for Christmas the entire time I owned the system. I'd venture to say that more than 90% of the N64 games I played were 99 cent rentals from the local Giant Eagle.
Now that I think about it...I didn't even get a game with the console!
The N64 mostly excelled at couch multiplayer games. Mario Kart, the Mario Party games, Super Smash Bros., Diddy Kong Racing, the wrestling games, Golden Eye... The console was mostly held up by Nintendo exclusives as third party support was poor and that explains why the console has one of the smallest libraries.
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Multiplayer couch games is it's legacy for sure. N64 came out late in elementary school for me (not sure the exact school year). I also found it had a huge resurgence when I got to college, Mario Cart 64 & Mario Party were major in the dorms my freshman and sophomore year. No one broke out their old PS1s or anything like that.
