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Pagan said:
From what I remember, SNES Secret of Mana release in the US was higher price then any other SNES or other comp game (minus NEO GEO) back in the early 90's.
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Because it was originally planned to be a CD release in collaboration with Sony and a much larger game, but that fell through so they chopped it down to what could fit on a cartridge and the rest got recycled over to Chrono Trigger. To recoup the excess development costs they raised the price.

There's plenty of datamined stuff that was never used, as well as photographs from magazines and locations on the map you can't explore.
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Aazrael said:
I think they said they will release a new Steam Deck when theres a big leap in the small form GPU/CPUs, not sure how fast that is advancing though.

How is the Switch 2 compared to Steam Deck spec wise?
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Small form stuff is going crazy but I feel like the major blocking point at this point is portable power.

You can already get things like:


that are essentially laptop boards with a 16c/32t CPU on them. Sure, not insanely powerful, but for the price and form factor, pretty impressive.

Wondering when Valve will just pull a "Wii" and release a "Console" that is essentially a small form factor "high end" laptop in a small case for TV use.
 
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Lanx said:
found the full ad (at least more of the ad to see who was selling)
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it's cuckada
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Good sir, I said that a few posts above this that it was Canadian
 
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Rajaah said:
If there is a Switch 2 price hike, it'll probably be offset by just trading in the Switch 1 towards it. Not like I need it for anything after this. Should be able to get around $200 at Gamestop due to the system launch trade in bonus. You could maybe get more than that on Ebay or something post-launch, but Gamestop is a better bet because they can just do a simple data transfer from the old system to a new one and you're good to go. Did that when I got a PS5 there. Walked out with about $250 off the PS5 cost and all my PS4 data moved to the PS5.
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"If I just let the gamestop employee / trade in people fuck me in the ass, they'll give me a discount!"
 
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Vorph said:
OLED Switch dropped from $143 to $121 today and that's the Pro member price. They might still run a promo for trading in towards a Switch 2, but I'll be surprised if it's more than $160 or so. Normally I'd agree with you and I try to do the trade-in thing on most new consoles I buy, but their offers for something that still sells for $350 are criminal.
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Hmm, if it's dropped that much... I might just sell my Switch after the Switch 2 comes out and I transfer stuff. Recouping isn't as convenient as getting a substantial discount, but when it's 2x or 3x as much, eh.
 
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Tarrant said:
it was a KB Toys ad from Canada after more research. And yes, pricing was all over back then. Here’s an American ad. I know this is correct because I bought Maximum Carnage at release and my dad yelled at me for spending that much of my money on it.

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Oh man, I can't imagine spending $70 of 1994 money on Maximum Carnage. That game whooped me, I brought it back to the rental store after a day or so, and I was mad that I spent like $6 on it. It's actually a pretty decent game if you know what you're doing (save up superhero summons for the really nasty boss fights later on) and better to play on emulator. In 1994 though I wasn't having it.

My worst actual purchase regret was probably getting True Lies (SNES) for about $40, at a time when I hardly ever got new games. It isn't terrible, it's just ludicrously hard and not very rewarding in any sense and there were many, MANY things I could and should have gotten instead.

Best purchase was Earthbound for $25 from a rental store that was going out of business circa 1999 or so. I sold it at some point around two decades later for $950.
 
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