Comment on Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
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.
Comment on Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
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.
sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Not sure if that’s a good parallel.
The hardware in a console and a cabinet are very different
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 years ago
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.
erwan@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 years ago
In a MAME machine maybe, but the original arcade cabinets all have custom hardware.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
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.