'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas - eviltoast
  • kurcatovium@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    You have to take a look on the size of the “gaming market” at release dates of those games. At mid 90s gaming was barely a thing, since PCs were still unbelievably expensive. Ten years later it was very different. Plus consoles on top of it…

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      6 months ago

      since PCs were still unbelievably expensive

      Heh. I think of things as being “incredibly cheap” these days and then being the norm.

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        6 months ago

        The point is PCs are much more affordable now. Not sure if it was just my country specific, but getting higher end PC in 90s was like one year of saving whole salary level expensive, while today it’s like one or two months.