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Comment Re:Availability (Score 0) 45

the original NES was released in 1985 at the price of $179.99, which inflation adjusted to today would be over $530. The SNES in the USA was released for $199.99 in August 1991, which inflation adjusted to today's price would be $470....

Yet, consider this -- consoles used to get price cuts quickly. The SNES launched for $199, but the next year it was selling for $149, and then $99. Meaning, most people paid much less than launch price. On the other hand, the Switch never got a price cut, so in practice it was more expensive; expect the same for the Switch 2.

Comment Re:How ridiculous to call portable PCs "XBox" (Score 1) 44

The idea is that you can boost a new product by tying it to an established brand. But it can also cause confusion and devalue the brand. You could say, for example, the PlayStation Portable is that done right, and the Xperia Play (aka "PlayStation Phone") is that done wrong.

Comment Floppy emulators (Score 2) 137

The trains in San Francisco's Muni Metro light railway, for example, won't start up in the morning until someone sticks a floppy disk into the computer that loads DOS software on the railway's Automatic Train Control System (ATCS).

I bet they could replace that with a floppy emulator, that'd load disk images from a flash drive instead.

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