What was the price at Launch?

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stack99

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This is a list of game consoles and their original retail prices in the USA. Please help fill in the blanks if you know the answers. Please don't guess or speculate. In fact, proof would be nice :) (but optional..lol)

Here's what I've got so far.

System Original Price

32X 159.99

3DO 699.99

AdventureVision 74.99

APF M-1000

Arcadia 2001 199.95

Astrocade

Atari 2600 249

Atari 5200 329.95

Atari 7800 149.99

Atari XE

CD32 399.99

CD-I 399.99

CDTV 999

Channel F 170

ColecoVision 175

Commodore 64 595.95

Creativision

Dedicated Consoles 0

Dragon 32 455 Francs

Dreamcast 199.99

Game & Watch

Game Boy 109

Game Boy Color 79.95

Game Gear 149.99

Game.com 69.95

GameCube 199.99

Genesis 189.99

Handhelds 0

Intellivision 299.99

InteractiveVision

Interton VC4000

Jaguar 249.99

Laseractive 969.99

Lynx 159.99

Mattel Aquarius

Memorabilia 0

Microvision

MSX

N64 299.99

Neo Geo 699

NGPC 69.99

Nintendo NES 199.99

NUON

Odyssey 99.99

Odyssey2

PC Jr

PC-FX

Pico 139.99

PlayStation 299.99

PS2 299.99

Publications 0

RCA Studio II 149.95

R-Zone

Saturn 399.99

Sega CD 299.99

Sega Master System 199

SG1000

Sinclair Spectrum

SNES 199

SuperGrafx 39800 yen

SuperVision 49.95

Telstar Arcade

TI-99/4A 1499

Tomy Tutor

TRS-80 599.95

TS 2068

Turbografx-16 189

Vectrex 199

VIC-20 299.99

Video Brain

Virtual Boy 179.99

Xbox 299.99
 
hmm, I remember it at 199.99, I don't think n64 was that high, do you have any info on this, I went off what I paid for it at launch, but was unsucessful finding anything concrete on this, on the web. But I welcome your info, youre probably right.
 
Originally posted by stack99@Mon, 2005-05-23 @ 06:41 PM

hmm, I remember it at 199.99, I don't think n64 was that high, do you have any info on this, I went off what I paid for it at launch, but was unsucessful finding anything concrete on this, on the web. But I welcome your info, youre probably right.

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$299 according to vidgame.net, that's also what I recall it being priced at.

http://vidgame.net/NINTENDO/N64.html
 
So, Nintendo 64 was priced at $300 at launch?

Hm.. Must've dropped down $50 the very next day or something. I distinctly remember seeing it priced at $249.99 in all the catalogs, and at the store. I also remember Nintendo promising they'd deliver a "powerful new console for less than $250."

It was $249.99 at launch.
 
Originally posted by RolfWrenWalsh+Tue, 2005-05-24 @ 10:27 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RolfWrenWalsh @ Tue, 2005-05-24 @ 10:27 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>So, Nintendo 64 was priced at $300 at launch?

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That's what the reliable site by the game collecting guy said.

Originally posted by RolfWrenWalsh@Tue, 2005-05-24 @ 10:27 PM

Hm.. Must've dropped down $50 the very next day or something. I distinctly remember seeing it priced at $249.99 in all the catalogs, and at the store. I also remember Nintendo promising they'd deliver a "powerful new console for less than $250."

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I'm sure there were several price drops, it was $129 only two years or so after it came out--but it started out at $300. Nintendo promises a lot of things. I think they promised more than one good game every quarter of the year for Gamecube, but that rarely happens.

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It was $249.99 at launch.

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No it wasn't, and for the last time, die!
 
<s>Unless I did the math backwards it looks like 728 USD (532 francs and an exchange rate of 1.37 in local US dollars at the time.)</s>

Actually wait, I just realized it says euros there, so I think it meant that they already did the conversion from francs 85 to euro today.... which means it would actually be $670
 
<nitpick>MSX is a platform, not a particular piece of hardware.</nitpick>

edit: in theory you could say the same thing about 3DO, but as far as I know Panasonic was the only company producing a consumer Multiplayer for quite a while, so maybe that doesn't count.
 
Panasonic (most known released all markets) No need for a pic, you know it!

Sanyo (released only in Japan)

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Goldstar (US)

3do.jpg


Creative Labs (as a PC card for IBM compatible systems)

3doblaster3.jpg


Other companies liscensed but cancelled consoles are

Samsung

samsung3do.jpg


Toshiba (no pic I could find)

Scientific-Atlanta (as a set top cable box) could not find pic

some other coin op ones were supposedly made by Atari and some others...
 
The list is missing A LOT!

ermm, the GamePark32 (GP32... its technically sold in america over the internet)

or how about other systems I do remember released here, like the TG-16 portable. Others that I don't remember the name of either.
 
yup my list isn't complete, thats why I posted it here, trying to get assistance in filling in the blanks. :)
 
Yeah, N64 was $300 at launch. I should know, I worked at a department store that year and snuck one into lay-a-way to try to sell for a much higher price.

Wasn't the first release of the NES much higher priced? When it came with the robot and everything? I could'a swore it first came out in the $500-600 range. It had been out for four or five years when I finaly saved up enough to buy mine (one dollar a week allowance only goes so far when saving up $200).
 
Originally the NES came in two bundles: the "Deluxe Set" ($249 US), containing the system, two controllers, the NES Zapper, the R.O.B., and two games (Duck Hunt, and Gyromite); and the "Action Set" ($199 US) that omitted the R.O.B. and replaced Gyromite with Super Mario Brothers.
 
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