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| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on September 17, 2019, 01:08:21 am --- --- Quote from: wartoy on September 16, 2019, 09:42:47 pm ---Earthbound for snes is very expensive but also common it's always has alot of sellers on ebay yet almost never drops in price. --- End quote --- I feel like it skates that edge between common and uncommon. It makes me cringe whenever someone claims it's a rare game, not even close. --- End quote --- Nothing that sold less than 150,000 units could be considered common, IMO. The price is still way too high, but its hardly common I think. |
| dreama1:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on September 17, 2019, 06:54:19 am --- --- Quote from: dreama1 on September 17, 2019, 06:39:53 am ---How are you defining common anyway? Do you mean in the sense that it's rare but can you can find a fair amount of copies listed online? Do you mean listings barely show up? or do you mean if they printed a few million copies? If so Earthbound is hardly common and it sold like shit when it came out. I'd go with Final Fantasy 7. It's pretty expensive for how common it is. --- End quote --- if you're asking me then I meant a few million copies slightly less. Also in my opinion just because a game is expensive cheap or common or rare, often times that don't increase the quality or the price of the item, it's sheer chance and YouTube influences that drive a lot of prices up I kid you not, I once saw a seller on Amazon selling a PlayStation 2 phat for exactly $1,000,000 US dollars and someone might have bought it too. or it went down in price because it is long gone from amazon.com (edit) Mickey Speedway USA for the N64 is a Mario Kart clone and it's an excellent alternative for a kart style racing game but because it's not mario related it is not as popular and is way cheaper, at least when I got it --- End quote --- How does someone sleep at night or look at themselves in the mirror listing that at $1,000,000? |
| hoshichiri:
Earthbound is 'rare' in that, compared to the likes of Mario & such, it had a much lower print run. It's not something you can expect to find in every game shop you ever visit. It's got enough reputation as a 'pricey' game, however, that plenty of resellers gobbled up copies and are now looking to turn a profit. Which is why the prices don't seem to drop- these guys will happily sit on those copies for years until they either turn a profit, or it becomes readily apparent they have to lower their prices. Which tends to happen when players/collectors selling amongst themselves drop prices to expedite sales- after all, we want to buy new games more than make a certain amount of money. I tend to use the Ebay test for true rarity- basically, look up a game and see how many listings there are. If you can find a dozen copies for sale at any given time, it's not really that rare. There's several dozen Earthbounds up once you scroll past the obvious fakes. Then on the flipside, you have something like Video Whizball, an old Channel F game that most people won't have heard of. That one's rare enough that most days, there are zero copies available on Ebay. Most games like that, that are truly rare, have no set value becuase there's no past data to really pull from. In the case of Whizball, in the year I watched Ebay, lamenting listings I missed by minutes, I saw it go as low at $5 and as high as $200. I ultimately paid $40 on a different forum. It's also worth noting that everyone has different ideas of what a properly 'expensive' game is. I, for example, wouldn't blink an eye at a $20 game, especially one of known quality like a Zelda or Mario. Over $30 is 'pricey', expensive doesn't start until $50, and unaffordable is well into triple digits. Meawhile some people drop $1000 or more on single titles without a concern. Honestly, that's kind of the nice thing about gaming- almost every income level can find something enjoyable for themselves in it. |
| wartoy:
Well I guess it's all a matter of opinion but i feel a game like panzer dragoon with about 5000 copies sold is rare and a game that sold over 100,000 copies relatively common imo. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: wartoy on September 17, 2019, 07:54:22 pm ---Well I guess it's all a matter of opinion but i feel a game like panzer dragoon with about 5000 copies sold is rare and a game that sold over 100,000 copies relatively common imo. --- End quote --- everything is relative. The nintendo market is allot bigger, saturn is a failed console with a way smaller market. probably some common games wich have less amounts sold than the rarer titles pretty much the entire library didnt sell 100K units a piece in the US. but than again panzer dragoon is one of the holy grails with 5000 copies sold in the US. for it to be a holy grail in say funko pop the amounts are 48 or less in existence so you could say panzer dragoon saga is common compared to some pops everything is relative after all ::) |
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