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| bikingjahuty:
I belong to a local retro gaming group on Facebook, and pretty much like all of them, people often post what they recently picked up. Someone posted a CIB Player's Choice copy of Super Mario World and I immediately noticed the $350.00 price sticker on the top corner of the box. My immediate reaction was, "wow, I hope he was able to talk the seller down from that...that's waaayy overpriced." It turns out that was actually a fair price, maybe even a pretty good deal compared to what it's currently selling for online right now. I literally could not believe my eyes when I saw that it was worth that much, not because I'm somehow not used to how insanely expensive retro games have become, especially in the last 3-years, but because it's frickin Super Mario World. Super Mario World sold 20-million copies on the SNES, and while i understand it was a common pack in game, it was still sold in high quantities as a standalone release as well. I am aware that the first run of black box copies are harder to find (more on those too in a minute), but the player's choice copies were still being sold in stores long after the pack in version of the SNES was discontinued. I know because i remember seeing this game in stores, and as a collector I've seen it CIB more times than i can count over the years. And let's not forget it's a $20 loose. So what has me scratching my head is how on God's green earth did this game's CIB price shoot up so dramatically? Which youtuber blew the lid off this game's supposed rarity as a CIB game and caused a feverish demand that now has these game selling for $350+ or $#@%ing $750+ for the black box version? Or is this some sort of normie speculation bubble created during the pandemic? I get how rare games can shoot up in value so quick, hell, we've seen it happen countless times over the years. Or how a slightly uncommon game that has proven to be an overlooked gem can shoot up in price, but this is Super Mario World, one of the best selling, if not the best selling SNES game of all time. Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy III, Mega Man X, and so many other must have SNES games could never dream of such a dramatic bump despite selling less than Super Mario World. This one just seems super weird to me, with speculation being the primary cause of its surge in price, and not an organic supply and demand situation like what we see with 99% of all other retro games. |
| telekill:
I checked about a week ago and Crash Dummies for Game Gear of all things is now worth more than $100! |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on May 06, 2023, 11:58:28 pm ---I belong to a local retro gaming group on Facebook, and pretty much like all of them, people often post what they recently picked up. Someone posted a CIB Player's Choice copy of Super Mario World and I immediately noticed the $350.00 price sticker on the top corner of the box. My immediate reaction was, "wow, I hope he was able to talk the seller down from that...that's waaayy overpriced." It turns out that was actually a fair price, maybe even a pretty good deal compared to what it's currently selling for online right now. I literally could not believe my eyes when I saw that it was worth that much, not because I'm somehow not used to how insanely expensive retro games have become, especially in the last 3-years, but because it's frickin Super Mario World. --- End quote --- As I said before I find it hard to imagine prices dropping down to 2018 lvl's for hyped stuff if said ip's keep being in the spotlight. I do hope your speculation comes true. but low hopes. More niche stuff has a good shot, but otherwise oof. still imo I just hope you have less people hunting the supply chain, so that way you can also get stuff for allot cheaper. That's a thing that has been allot worse post covid as one of the main downgrades for collecting. |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: sworddude on May 07, 2023, 10:35:00 am --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on May 06, 2023, 11:58:28 pm ---I belong to a local retro gaming group on Facebook, and pretty much like all of them, people often post what they recently picked up. Someone posted a CIB Player's Choice copy of Super Mario World and I immediately noticed the $350.00 price sticker on the top corner of the box. My immediate reaction was, "wow, I hope he was able to talk the seller down from that...that's waaayy overpriced." It turns out that was actually a fair price, maybe even a pretty good deal compared to what it's currently selling for online right now. I literally could not believe my eyes when I saw that it was worth that much, not because I'm somehow not used to how insanely expensive retro games have become, especially in the last 3-years, but because it's frickin Super Mario World. --- End quote --- As I said before I find it hard to imagine prices dropping down to 2018 lvl's for hyped stuff if said ip's keep being in the spotlight. I do hope your speculation comes true. but low hopes. More niche stuff has a good shot, but otherwise oof. still imo I just hope you have less people hunting the supply chain, so that way you can also get stuff for allot cheaper. That's a thing that has been allot worse post covid as one of the main downgrades for collecting. --- End quote --- It is absolutely wild. I never thought I'd see such a common game increase in value so substantially. I do think a lot of it is speculation and also overplaying the rarity of its standalone release, but even so, I find it crazy it's selling for that much; even half that would be alarming given the game in question. |
| dhaabi:
How I'm understanding the exponential rise in game prices is that a lot of these consumers are only buying for a potential future investment. It is the same as when some people are having modern games graded. From my outsider's perspective, it seems as if items at this price level are only being traded back-and-forth between a small pool of individuals which unfortunately targets many more. At some point, it will collapse as they lose disinterest. Or, alternatively, collecting will just become a hobby for a niche group of individuals with deep pockets who aren't interested in the medium at all, as opposed to the niche group of fans as it was before. Nevertheless, something you can't ignore is that for many of these high valued items, they are out of production with years not having been kind to their condition, in most cases. If there is actual demand for the item, there are only so many available which will certainly raise market value. |
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