Ryan

10/15 years ago PC games were costing 40/45 quid easily. Only started to come down around 2001. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember buying Quake about a week after release for £35 over ten years ago when new console games were always over £45 and sometimes up to £70. I dont remember other PC games being much different at the time although they did vary wildly.

H.O.V.I

10/15 years ago PC games were costing 40/45 quid easily. Only started to come down around 2001. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember buying Quake about a week after release for £35 over ten years ago when new console games were always over £45 and sometimes up to £70. I dont remember other PC games being much different at the time although they did vary wildly. </BLOCKQUOTE>

60-70 was the console era

H.O.V.I

10/15 years ago PC games were costing 40/45 quid easily. Only started to come down around 2001. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember buying Quake about a week after release for £35 over ten years ago when new console games were always over £45 and sometimes up to £70. I dont remember other PC games being much different at the time although they did vary wildly. </BLOCKQUOTE>

60-70 was the console era </BLOCKQUOTE>

Console

Meant Cartridge

Fat Bhoy Tim

10/15 years ago PC games were costing 40/45 quid easily. Only started to come down around 2001. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember buying Quake about a week after release for £35 over ten years ago when new console games were always over £45 and sometimes up to £70. I dont remember other PC games being much different at the time although they did vary wildly. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Hard pressed to find a game around 93-97 that was under 40 quid, but at least you managed to.

Ryan

The main difference between console games and PC games (which I'm sure has been mentioned above) is that a game is only released under permission of the console manufacturer who receive a cut of every sale. That's something we can thank Nintendo for although it's something which brought console gaming out of the big crash of 83/84 and allows console manufacturers control over software released (not that it stops drivel being produced in droves). Most console manufacturers make far far more profit out of the royalties from games rather than any of the hardware in itself (which is often sold at a loss) so the margin can be fairly large.

Ryan

10/15 years ago PC games were costing 40/45 quid easily. Only started to come down around 2001. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember buying Quake about a week after release for £35 over ten years ago when new console games were always over £45 and sometimes up to £70. I dont remember other PC games being much different at the time although they did vary wildly. </BLOCKQUOTE>

60-70 was the console era </BLOCKQUOTE>

Console

Meant Cartridge </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep the £70 I was referring to were some of the original N64 games. Although it wasnt exactly unheard of for some PS games to go up to £60 before Rare started releasing all of their games at £50. PS games were generally quite easy to find for £40-£45 if you shopped around, though.

Ryan

Hard pressed to find a game around 93-97 that was under 40 quid, but at least you managed to. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Hmm maybe I was just lucky. I remember Quake, Quake 2, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Worms 2, every CM game ever, Half Life, every Command and Conquer game ever and the vast majority of new releases all being under £40 in every shop within 40 miles of me at the time (excluding those privately owned shops which sold everything at twice the price which died out by the end of the nineties). £34.99 was generally the release price I saw everywhere for almost every PC game at the time.

Scatter

or... what FBT said?

Hairy Coo

E.T by Atari ftw

Ryan

One did hint that one didnt read the thread very thoroughly 0=)