Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?
Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?
The tech strore has a capcom arcade cabinet, its one of those multi game ones
Seems to be this model
https://arcade1up.com/collections/trending-now/products/mvc2-arcade-game
The marvel vs capcom2 one
Why are cabinets so expensive?
I get they are bulky and licences exist but how do like 15 games make a 200 euro price increase
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If a new video game console is $500, a full size piece of furniture with custom art and a video console inside it sounds like a bargain for $600.
Not sure if that's a good parallel.
The hardware in a console and a cabinet are very different
Yeah, the hardware in a console is mass produced, the hardware in an arcade cabinet is made in relatively small batches. Mass producing something is always a lot cheaper per unit due to economies of scale.
The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.
In a MAME machine maybe, but the original arcade cabinets all have custom hardware.
Not all of them. In recent years, virtually all arcades have been powered by standard gaming PCs (see for example the infamous Half-Life 2 arcade). In the past, it wasn't unheard of for some arcades to have nearly identical hardware compared to home consoles. The Neo Geo arcade for example is running the exact same code as the home console (although in this case, the arcade came first). There have also been edge-cases, like the Namco System 11, which is using only slightly modified PS1 hardware (primarily in the sound department) in order to drive down costs.
Depends on when it was made. A modern, multi-game cabinet could run entirely on a Raspberry Pi and cost far less to build than a console.