Original cost of Vs. kits?

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I was just wondering if anyone knew what the original cost for these were, for the operators? At the time did the operators eat them up? What i mean is, were they not making money off of the DKs and Popeyes of the world and started converting?
 
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If you think about it that is terribly expensive considering the Vs. hardware was basically another form of the Nes hardware that sold for a whole lot cheaper.

Why was the Vs board so big when the Nes PCB was so small?
 
Hell I don't think that's all that expensive at all.

$275 for a Vs. Kit? That's a steal compared to what most kits cost. Of course it was just chips/art.

750 or whatever for the whole kit, but that would have included a pcb, a wiring harness, a control panel, sideart, a bezel. Also a great deal.

If I were an operator, I would have been all over that shit. You get everything you need to make a brand new game for $1000 bucks, and then can swap it into brand new games every few months for $275? HELL YEAH That's some Rock Star shit there. Nintendo's kind of known for that.
 
$275 for a game kit, a little pricey to me (Well then again this was the 1980s, so maybe this was a deal). I'm trying to figure out what the expensive part is: The ROMs, the PPU, or the artwork?
 
$275 for a game kit, a little pricey to me (Well then again this was the 1980s, so maybe this was a deal). I'm trying to figure out what the expensive part is: The ROMs, the PPU, or the artwork?

You're kidding, right? The expensive part was the development costs. A kit today costs 2 grand... 275 is a steal. At the time, a brand new game in the 80's was over 2 grand... or you could spend a tenth of that and have a brand new game. Seems like a no brainer to me.
 
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