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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: shawndude82 on September 05, 2021, 10:20:02 am --- --- Quote from: kazumn on September 05, 2021, 09:46:12 am ---Also i've never understood those crazy prices for vga / wata graded games what makes it suddenly worth 5 times more then the actual market price if a console manufactor like nintendo would do it, i could see the value. But in the end it's just a third party grading games, adds zero extra value for me to be honest --- End quote --- Eh, it's the same with graded cards or comics. It doesn't really make them more valuable, it's all just opinion of the buyer. You can buy Bionic Commando on the NES right now for around $40 bucks. Get it graded, and suddenly it's a $300 item. It never made sense, but that's how it is. Personally, I don't care how mint or poor the condition of the box is, as long as the game still plays. But I'm not above buying some cheap games to be graded to make a cool profit (and spend it on more games to play!) --- End quote --- I've seen wata graded used games sell for 3 or 4 times the money of a used copy The most crazy thing ever is that allot of these copies are missing flaps wich lowers a used cib copy by allot or worthless in an ungraded scenario to a ton of people. USA market sure is crazy :o |
| oldgamerz:
I expect it to last forever, and forever gone retro games forever unaffordable unless we are talking 8-bit multi-carts in that case plenty of games to play, in my backlog, I have literally 450+ 8 bit homebrew games on one like new cartridge that have like 10+ difficult levels of gameplay a piece, I never beat. PS1, N64, GameCube, PS2, PS3, I don't will ever come down unless they let you keep modern games instead of renting them out for 60USD a pop, plus 100GB on a 600GB harddrive console, your luckly to hold and play 10 games at a time on a PS4, I'm sure the PS5 will be the same way too. AND the Xbox One Seies X. Same way. I could care less about 4k graphics I just want a console that can hold more then 100 games at a time on it's harddrive, that's reallly not much to ask considering Modern technology, it would seem technology has only gotten worse not better as time went on. What is the differnece between a 4k TV and a supped up CRT with HDMI? |
| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on September 05, 2021, 04:23:59 pm ---PS1, N64, GameCube, PS2, PS3, I don't will ever come down unless they let you keep modern games instead of renting them out for 60USD a pop, plus 100GB on a 600GB harddrive console, your luckly to hold and play 10 games at a time on a PS4, I'm sure the PS5 will be the same way too. AND the Xbox One Seies X. Same way. I could care less about 4k graphics I just want a console that can hold more then 100 games at a time on it's harddrive, that's reallly not much to ask considering Modern technology, it would seem technology has only gotten worse not better as time went on. --- End quote --- Well you are in luck, because every one of those console is capable of doing that. Especially with the 8bit games you are talking about. The one Wii have hooked up has about 2000 games on it, and it has far less storage than a PS4, PS5 or any Xbox. Find the way to jailbreak the system and you can play every game you are talking about - and still have space for a couple of modern games. Additionally, the HD space on modern consoles has nothing to do wit the price of retro games, but I'm not surprised that you managed to find some way to bring it up here. --- Quote ---What is the differnece between a 4k TV and a supped up CRT with HDMI? --- End quote --- The aspect ratio, for starters. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: sworddude on September 05, 2021, 09:20:12 am --- --- Quote from: shawndude82 on September 04, 2021, 10:23:09 am --- --- Quote from: undertakerprime on September 03, 2021, 09:59:35 pm --- --- End quote --- Like Beanie Babies or Pogs. Us real collectors are still gonna be around after the posers move on to the next big thing. I have to believe that, or I'll lose my mind. And then who'll look after my Tick pogs? --- End quote --- Can we really compare it to those fads beanie babies or pogs have no substance it's pretty much only to collect. aside from the looks what's so memorable about them. What are you going to do with those aside from looking at them. With games you can play them, gaming in general is one more fun passing times. Looking at pogs and beanie babies gotto be near the bottom of the list of having a fun time aside from collecting them. Games have music fun gameplay multiplayer in some occasions excellent stories wich result in pretty in nice memories. Heck 2d games today are even playable among the younger generations that didn't even grow up with it. I don't think there is a comparison because games where never there to be a collectable. It ain't even their main thing. Games have to much going for them to be compared to actual fads like beanie babies. Iconic mascots from Nintendo definitely help aswell. --- End quote --- Agreed. I get the sentiment of people who say this but the "Funko pops and Video Games are the next beanie baby" argument I always hear doesn't hold weight. I mean beanie babies were heavily commercialized and pointless stuffed animals that have already existed for millenia. Once the intial fun wore off you were left with nothing. Video games fall more into the comics and vinyl territory. When they become less desirable in collectibility like you said their will always be a old man wanting to listen to a vinyl for sound alone, a geek wanting to relive his childhood through comics and a e reader just wont do :) If not for money or collecting. Video games have a physical significance and can be played. Pogs were literally cardboard circles lol. Although pogs have gone up in desirability so I wouldn't sleep on their nostalgia factor. |
| Flashback2012:
Even without the pandemic playing a role in things, the prices for certain systems would have surged regardless. You've got some people hitting that spot where they're nostalgic for the systems they grew up on, in this case the DC/PS2/Xbox/GC era, and they now possess the disposable income to pick those fondly remembered titles up...even if it comes at a premium. :o The other problem that's been steadily increasing is the amount of speculators/flippers/scalpers on the scene trying to dictate how the market goes and how they can best profiteer from it. I saw a post on Reddit the other day where a collector was sent a message from someone asking them to raise the price of their auction on a game because a sale at a lower value would affect the prices of all copies overall. There's NO getting those bastards out of the industry at this point though and it's mildly infuriating to see the graded scene becoming bonkers and affecting non-graded games as a result. >:( If anything, I expect every generation going forward to become even more nonsensical than the previous one until the hardware makers manage to successfully make digital-only the de-facto standard. We're already seeing some PS4/Switch games attaining nosebleed prices because of smaller print runs and limited availability. :-\ Now that I've got a house, I can't collect like I used to and even when I did have more disposable income it was already a huge PITA trying to keep up. I've halfway resigned myself at this point to accepting that I won't be able to going forward though. ;) |
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