Is it known at all what the average development cost was for games in the 4th-6th gen? It seems like they weren't that expensive and biggest cost factor was having to pay for cartridges and memory since once the ps1 took off, good or bad, everyone was dumping their shit on that thing
>>12068781Those are probably leafbucksNo way KI cost 88 burgerbucks
>>12068791Those are Canadian prices
>>12068791I do seem to remember KI having a higher than normal price point though, like sixty burgers. Snes titles generally ran for $40 back then.
>>12068781nintendo and sega forced you to go through them for cartridge manufacturing so basically you had price fixing going on
>>12068862Did HuCards cost less comparatively?
>>12068781OP is a nigger for baiting with the canadian prices again. Pic related is USA.
>>12068791it is canadian. its a common bait that gets spammed on here and normalfag places constantly.
>>12068875>>12068879>againNot trying to bait, I just used whatever I found on Google. Look at that image. A new game like DKC3 was 70 fucking dollars.
>>12068895>A new game like DKC3 was 70 fucking dollars.Yes, a new game with normal pricing for electronic goods had an MSRP significantly lower than the niggerkiked ones in the OP. You also conveniently ignored how the SNES bundles aren't triple-digit and every other game listed in the picture is less than $50USD.
>>12068781I don't know but I wanna know the answer too OP so hopefully they stop arguing like fags about something unrelated
>>12068781For a sort of average to cheap games you would have>programmer>sound guy>level editor>project manager>usually another personGaming wasn't considered as sough after as making business software so maybe say they could make $50k instead of $60 to $80 that someone working on the Lotus spreadsheets could make.Maybe it would take 8 months.Supposedly one of the Megaman X games was made in 3 months with 5 people, seems unbelievable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGySNVszN0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buuUZFh_pykFactor 5 also said something about the cost and how it increased by a lot after the n64.>>12068862except for small number from Acclaim, Accolade, EA, Codemasters and some others with slightly different cartridge shells
>>12068931Interesting. Thanks for actually trying to answer the question
>>12068913Yeah, because they were older games and/or player's choice. This had to be 96 when the 64 was out or just about to come out, so it's no wonder the snes is so cheap. Either way, that's not what the thread is about.
>>12068895>A new game like DKC3 was 70 fucking dollars.That was the cost of UMK3 on snes when it was released.
>>12068931>Supposedly one of the Megaman X games was made in 3 months with 5 people, seems unbelievable.I think that was Mega Man 7. Which is crazy if true because that game has all sorts little easter eggs and secrets too
>>12068781I want to go back to 1995
This is how much games and other stuff costed in 1995 in Argentina. For the record, Argentina at the time had "convertibility". That means, 1 ARS = 1 USD.
>>12068875Man imagine playing $70 for the shittiest Donkey Kong Country game lmao
>>12069046>costedThis is an English speaking board, ESL's need not apply
>>12068892Whole wesbsite (remember those?) is now.
US dollars.
One more.
>>12069093>get banned I wish this shitstain of a site had mods that actually did something beyond jerking it to diaperfur in whatever discord they hang out in.
>>120690872>1
>>12069090>improperly structured sentence>Did not end a sentence with a period.Check yo self before you wreck yo self.
>>12068864Probably. I remember TG16 games being relatively affordable at the time. Brand new hot shit titles were still like $40-$50 but I don't think I ever saw a HuCard game that cost $70 and I remember getting a couple games for $20.
>>12068781Yes. PS1 and CD tech opened the doors to almost PC levels of shovelware.
>shovewarethen why the n64 has only about 20 good games out of 296?
>>12069379Because Nintendo dove headfirst into a pile of bricks while they were designing that shitbox.
>>12069087Imagine not having to pay for:>a new smart phone every few years>mobile phone monthly subscription >netflix & other movie streaming monthly subscription>music streaming subscription>most people didn't pay for home internet access eitherSo yeah, people had 70 bucks to spend on "the worst Donkey Kong Country" now and then
>>12069090>ESL'sTheir what?
both of you can go fuck yourselves
>>12068781>Cropped picture>Canuck prices>Same old BaitStop it, get some health.
>>12068875>All players choice rereleased cost more then KIFucking Kektendo.
>>12069112Okay /vr/, I've managed to time travel to the mid 90s, should I buy Super Metroid and Kirby's Avalanche, or go all out and buy Bass Masters Classic '96?
>>12069934There's always some boogeyman you guys bring up
>>12069952Definitely Bass Masters. Nintendo games are baby shit.
If you had good 16-bit devs they weren't going to work cheap because barely anyone in the world could even use MS Paint very well.
>>12069732sure but instead people were spending their money on:>old ass brick cellphones and cellphone planes (90s onward anyways)>movie tickets/vhs tapes/vhs rentals>music tapes and music cds>porn mags/video tapesand like 30 million americans had dialup by 1997 (i was one of them) so its not like it was a strange expense
>>12068781No. It is not known. Given the predictibly ridiculousy broad scope of the question it would be nearly imposible to know and even if you did the number would be meaningless.
>>12068781Are you making a YT video?
>>12070808I wonder if sega lord x posts here, that would be pretty cool.
>>120690873 is still better than 1
>>12070808No. OP isn't making a youtube. They/them imagines he will and that it will be epic and get lots of likes and subscribes. Be he will never actually produce anything. Ever.
>>12071483All he did was ask a simple question. The derangement around /vr/ has gotten so bad
>>12068875>November 1996That's when Sony was already gaining ground on them, forcing them to lower prices. How how about showing an ad before Sony began handing their asses to them?
>>12068781Clearly this is a 1995 advertisement, given that Donkey Kong Country 2 is the newest game. Even for Canadian prices, $80.00 for DKC1 one year later, still seems ridiculous. RPG's were generally the most expensive cartridge games. Illusion of GAIA does come with a strategy guide, but the game is like a 16mb cartridge with battery back-up. I remember seeing Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III sold at $95.98 price tags.
>>12071153Nope. This game would have been saved if you could play as Funky Kong or even Donkey Kong.I hate getting killed in this game cause the screaming toddler. Fucking A.
>>12070195Nobody had those brick cellphones. People used to meet up in person much more often.
>>12069116>PSXThere it is.
>>12071808Then don't get killed.
>>12071724>all i did is out myself an underage newfagmany such cases
>>12073173You dont need to find evidence for the existence of PSX the people who you are arguing against on this board are trolling you.
>>12073196>You dont need to find evidence for the existence of playstationSee what I did there kiddo
>>12069732How about all those magazine subscriptions, mate?
>>12071976People did have those cell phones. My dad had one and he had a pager, too. You think pagers were free or nonexistent or someshit?
>>12069112There were a few N64 games that were $70 on release. Everyone likes to conveniently forget about that.
>>12068781Games took less time to make and had smaller teams but the cost of manufacturing was a lot more back then. It kinda balanced out.
>>12071976>Nobody had those brick cellphonesyou're indian or mexican
>>12069030Yeah Mega Man 7 is my favorite MM and it has an insane turn around time and it makes me wonder they never made more. (Well technically they did with Rockman & Forte) I assume just getting ONE good game on the console burned people out.
>>12074087that's what I paid for Shadows of the Empire in summer 97
