PS4, Xbox One not as expensive as you think

[FriedPet]

Wonder if steam has any plans for distributing console games in the future. Seeing it's made big picture mode and all

No, I think the big picture is for the steambox coming.

[Piesank]

Very interesting - probably why the arcades in America were so popular - the home system were too expensive

[Grievous]

Not really, it depends on where on the tech curve they come out. So for example the PS3 was the first consumer device afaik to have Blu-ray so the price was more expensive.

Not sure Moores law has much to do with the blu-ray prices either. The Blu-ray has become cheaper because its become pretty much standard and manufacturing costs have gone down. Moores law doesn't apply to every single technology that becomes cheaper over time. His rule is relates to Semiconductors becoming smaller, so in general its more about CPUs becoming faster than general products becoming cheaper over time.