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| marvelvscapcom2:
Hello everyone :) The era of the STIMMY As we all know, last year millions of Americans were simoultaneosly flooded with thousands of dollars in trump lumps, mortgage forgiveness and bursts of unemployment retroactive backpay and had stimmy swimmies on the great big web of games. This combined with at least a 3rd of the country being forced to stay at home with nothing but a TV, a plastic childhood friend and pockets bigger than inhabitions. We seen games like MarvelVsCapcom 2 selling for upwards of 200 dollars after being 65 CIB for years. PS2s in working condition closing in on near 100 dollars when you could walk outside and trip on one getting the mail in 2013 :( During this time I unloaded much of my PS2 collection because to me PS2 is still accessible and common. But is it? Is my question. My main question is do you think that games like say that 15 dollar PS2 game that is now 200 dollars go back down or do you think once they are high up they are just going to stay that way forever? Do you think the ones selling to semi rich people with all the leisure time in the world during a global crisis are the smart ones? Or do you think that the ones buying are smart? Seeing a surge of video games from their childhood and getting while the getting was good :) |
| undertakerprime:
I think prices will cool off over the next couple years, for two reasons: First, once the “unspecified virus of unknown origin” finally passes, demand will go down. Second, it’s recently come out that Heritage Auctions and WATA have likely been colluding to artificially increase market prices (hence that ridiculous $2 million price on a WATA-graded SMB, which was bought partially by someone with ties to both the auction company that sold it and the company that graded it). Hopefully all that BS will be stopped and game prices will come down closer to actual market value. |
| burningdoom:
I hope these things will cause prices to go down. But I'm not betting on it. I've been collecting since the late 90s, and I've only seen prices go up for retro, not down. Not talking about recent-gen stuff that goes on clearance sales, either, but actual retro. Speaking of that, though, that's the way to go. Right now Xbox 360, XBox One, PS3, PS4, Wii, and Wii U are the systems to be scooping up games for at bottom-dollar prices. |
| emporerdragon:
I think we'll be seeing a steady increase for a while. Right now, the biggest problem is that the speculators and scalpers have turned their gaze to video game collecting, so there's plenty of people trying to flip for profit rather than getting stuff to play and collect. And similarly, with the average Joe unable to get their hands on a PS5 or a Series X, they're turning more to the older games and systems, also increasing the prices because of the higher demand. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: undertakerprime on September 03, 2021, 09:59:35 pm ---I think prices will cool off over the next couple years, for two reasons: First, once the “unspecified virus of unknown origin” finally passes, demand will go down. Second, it’s recently come out that Heritage Auctions and WATA have likely been colluding to artificially increase market prices (hence that ridiculous $2 million price on a WATA-graded SMB, which was bought partially by someone with ties to both the auction company that sold it and the company that graded it). Hopefully all that BS will be stopped and game prices will come down closer to actual market value. --- End quote --- first part I agree 2nd part I'm not to sure since sealed games have always been in a totally different ball park than used. For the sealed market sure, but if that affects the used market? That's kinda comparing apples with oranges. |
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