• Dippy@beehaw.org
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    1 month ago

    It’s a super luxury item with not just dedicated hardware but also carpentry and extra art

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Those things are complicated as fuck. An arcade cabinet is relatively simple compared to a pinball machine. Even modern ones still need all the moving parts for the board; video game just needs the computer, a controller and a screen.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month 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.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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        1 month 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
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          1 month ago

          The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    1 month ago

    IMO its a specialty market now, the demand isnt there to make a streamlined business model for a large enough profit for the investment

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
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    1 month ago

    First to answer your question. Gosh man…I feel like everything is insanely expensive now. Food entertainment, resources, everything. It’s brutal. I went to a local used game shop and prices have not recovered since 2020. Some games are stupidly overpriced now.

    Oh, I’ve seen this cabinet in person! It’s much smaller than I expected and would be kind of awkward to actually use. I’m 6 foot, and I would have to look down at it to use it.

    It’s cool, though. The artwork is really neat.

    I think if I was going to get a cabinet, there were only two ways I would want to go about it.

    1. I would probably make my own and spend a heck of a lot of time and money on it. It would be a pain to do, but the end product would be something that fits my tastes and works perfectly. Those cabinets that are essentially just big emulators seem to make the most sense to build imo.

    2. acquiring a DDR machine. I have no idea if you can even build those. I mean, I guess you could, but those would probably be expensive as heck.

    I built a custom GBA a while back and I think when it was said and done I spent around $300+ CAD on it? It was more expensive than it needed to be, but it was a fun project to try. I taught myself how to solder too, which was fun.