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| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: sworddude on September 27, 2019, 06:42:48 pm --- --- Quote from: 98dgreen on September 25, 2019, 06:09:57 pm --- --- Quote from: Cartagia on September 25, 2019, 05:23:20 pm ---GameCube titles are odd like that, but it is important to remember that even though these games are the best selling on their consoles that GC was still easily the lowest selling console of the generation, so compared to their PS2 and XB contemporaries these games are harder to find. --- End quote --- Actually, I believe that Xbox and Gamecube sold about the same. --- End quote --- gamecube sold about 30% less than xbox in the states and europe. in japan on the otherhand xbox is uber rare compared to gamecube. --- End quote --- In North America, it honestly feels like GameCube was a bit more obscure than that. Walk into any given game store and the GC selection is 1/3 the original Xbox selection, which itself is about 1/3 the PS2 selection. By that token, often a selection of GC titles are about 70% multiplat shovelware, whereas the availability of more premium titles on Xbox and PS2 is typically a lot higher. GameCube feels almost as obscure as Dreamcast. Maybe not that drastically hard to come by, but damn near it for a system that seemed to do okay back when. This is not a recent trend either, I never had much luck finding GC games, even back when I first started to collect. Ironically, I found a stack of some pretty decent ones sitting out by the curb, waiting to be picked up by the garbage disposal this year, including Melee. |
| ferraroso:
--- Quote from: sworddude on September 27, 2019, 06:42:48 pm ---gamecube sold about 30% less than xbox in the states and europe. in japan on the otherhand xbox is uber rare compared to gamecube. --- End quote --- Indeed, original Xbox (actually, Xbox One as well) games are, if not rare, at least unusual around here in Japan. However, since Game Cube games came in a small plastic box covered by a carton sleeve, good games (such as the Zeldas, Marios etc) in good condition (or complete in box) tend to be much more expensive than the vast majority of Xbox games, even in Japan. |
| oldgamerz:
Can "Conkers Bad Fur Day" be considered a common yet expensive retro game? according the database 923 members currently have this game and 300 people have this game on their wishlist's if the Nintendo 64 version is rare than I guess most people would be SOL in ever obtaining this game. I did hear of a watered down port of this game on xbox with some of it's adult themes removed. Is Conkers Bad Fur Day really rare I ask? or just not enough in demand https://vgcollect.com/item/4968 923 |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on December 15, 2019, 07:19:22 am ---Can "Conkers Bad Fur Day" be considered a common yet expensive retro game? according the database 923 members currently have this game and 300 people have this game on their wishlist's if the Nintendo 64 version is rare than I guess most people would be SOL in ever obtaining this game. I did hear of a watered down port of this game on xbox with some of it's adult themes removed. Is Conkers Bad Fur Day really rare I ask? or just not enough in demand https://vgcollect.com/item/4968 923 --- End quote --- nothing with such prices can be considered common. and if it really was deals with these games in it would be quite easy to find. you should not need to buy it for those prices than. if anything can be considered common it means that you can find it for cheap rather easily because there is so much of it. FF VII is a nice example of something being common while having some value. but as hyped as a game is. there is always a cap in price when it is to common. it won't reach certain price lvl's when it is easy to find if an item is common. |
| Cartagia:
Price aside, yes Conker’s Bad Fur day is at minimum an Uncommon game. It sold poorly on initial release, and it released in the back end of the console lifecycle. These are the perfect two criteria to make a game hard to find. |
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