These guys doing the hoarding are idiots. Don't they remember the Atari bubble? When I was in middle school, Atari nostalgia was a big deal- you could get all sorts of branded merch at Hot Topic & whatnot. Then it aged out of popularity & now hardly anyone gives a crap. Even the rarest of rare Atari games, like Pepsi Invaders, can't pull more than a 3 digit price.
These guys are just assuming the market will hold- but they're running on borrowed time. Eventually the kids of today will grow up, & they won't want most of our junk. You see it in the displays we show off in stores & magazines... minimalist trappings. Don't collect stuff. Just download/stream all your media & hide the boxes & cords that store & move your data. Eventually no one will come to see their piles of sealed games, even when they do intend to sell- and they'll be left alone, looking at their horde, & realizing all the potential gains they could have had & passed on for the sole purpose of being jerks to the only people who cared.
I'm pretty sure the market wont crash in the next 10 to 20 years they'll probably have sold it by than these people are getting old after all retirement. they won't hold on to those games for long. i have seen such people already making bank.
Besides if it was actually like atari that crash should have already happened years ago. atari was minimalistic yet nowadays we have brand new indi games in sprite game form and even in the case of atari the rare stuff still sells for big money. old ip's coming back such as megaman, metroidvania making a comeback. 2d action platformers. can we like not forget that in the nes saved the gaming industry.
even back in the day atari was getting old and was considered very meh at the beginning stages of the nes era. atari is literally a few lines and simplistic sound effects. yet nowadays a games actually have 2d throwbacks aswell.
it will end for sure but i highly doubt that those hoarders will mis anything unless they are stupid enough to never sell it at all, aside from the fact that if the market actually crashes i highly doubt anyone would sell their panzer dragoon saga for 20 or 50$ or even less when they paid 500 600 + unless they are in a very unfavourable position in life.
funkopops now that is a beanie babies fad that will die out some time soon if your holding pricy stuff for that. shelf candy trinkets for a popular series..
we all hope for that retrogame crash sometime soon since you can buy all the games for dirt cheap than. I highly doubt it will happen in our life time maybe at the end of our life time if I had to guess. would love to be proven wrong btw.
moderns games have 2d throwbacks where getting excellent 2d indi games like bloodstained curse of the moon. classic disney throwbacks like cuphead. capcom bringing ip's such as megaman back. unlike atari wich just had a small homebrew scene. atari games was almost purely nostalgia while 2d games actually attracts a new audience aswell not to mention nintendo ip's modern games implementing 2d because people want it.
zelda kirby mario pokemon those are pretty popular atm so kinda hard to see those classic games die anytime soon unless nintendo goes bankrupped and makes all them ip's forgotten. and wich people drove the pokemon prices up. cant be veterans who already own the games after the pokemon go craze. pokemon prices never fully recovered to those lower prices after pokemon go hype died down to name one example.
also say esports mortal kombat street fighter king of fighters they all have their classic roots to keep them older games alive so unless those series go bankrupped again.
where are all the references to atari to keep it fresh all those ip's are so simplistic and boring. a ton of retro games have awesome visuals, soundtracks or iconic characters that make people go back to play the older games. atari has nothing aside from pacman wich isnt that fantastic really.