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| scott:
--- Quote from: jcalder8 on January 28, 2013, 10:53:41 am ---I have an easier time getting my son to play classic 2d gameplay than dated 3d. --- End quote --- As much as I love my Saturn, I'd say anything in the N64, Saturn, PS1 era has a hard time holding up and doesn't age well. Though PS2 games and Xbox games seem to be more resistant to aging, in my opinion. I can play PS2 games all day long and not have any issues with them looking crappy. ha. I agree that there is a bubble, but I don't think collecting is going to die, not as long as new systems come out and games remain physical objects. IF the console market moves heavy into digital, I'll eventually think of their games in the same light I think of most PC games. "worthless". Not worthless as in resale value, but more in the need to worry about keeping back ups and whether or not I'll lose my collection to hard drive/hardware/DRM failure. |
| jcalder8:
--- Quote from: turf on January 28, 2013, 11:34:01 am ---Do I think collecting is goonna die? No. Do I think there is a "bubble" that is going to pop? Absolutely. Prices are becoming overly inflated and too many people are buying games as an investment. People buy stuff up and try to flip the games for a quick buck. Sound familiar? This is the housing market about 2005. --- End quote --- You're right, it's not going to fully die but the bubble is about ready to burst. The housing market is a great example. --- Quote from: darko on January 28, 2013, 11:40:39 am ---Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. I don't know anyone who's out getting a sub-prime loan to "invest" in video games :) --- End quote --- Some people have, just like they did with comic books. Also it's not the hoarders that is the problem it's the people who are trying to make a quick buck. At the second hand store I used to work at I would price video game items ridiculously high because I knew one reseller would buy it no matter what. The highest I hit was 39.99 for a loose N64 console which he bought as soon as he saw it. I dropped the prices back down after that because I felt guilty about it. This is the kind of person that is going to burst the bubble because he will never get back his investment and kids who wanted the N64 growing up got one for the most part so they don't feel the need to get it like the SNES and NES generation. |
| htimreimer:
when it comes to all digital download games, i think sony and microsoft will go all in for it but i doubt nintendo will go all in |
| darko:
--- Quote from: jcalder8 on January 28, 2013, 11:54:50 am ---The housing market is a great example. --- End quote --- Totally disagree. The reason the housing market collapsed has very little to do with the people buying and flipping houses. It had mostly to do with predatory lending practices and horrible, horrible banking rules and government regulatory decisions. It's true that there was a supply/demand imbalance, but that "bubble" was only possible because of the artificially inflated purchasing power of the consumer. There's a big difference between running up a couple of grand on a credit card and owing $500,000 - $1.5 million on a home. Ebay doesn't run like Freddie Mac. --- Quote from: jcalder8 on January 28, 2013, 11:54:50 am ---Some people have, just like they did with comic books. --- End quote --- Comic books might be a great example. |
| jcalder8:
--- Quote from: darko on January 28, 2013, 11:59:19 am ---Totally disagree. The reason the housing market collapsed has very little to do with the people buying and flipping houses. It had mostly to do with predatory lending practices and horrible, horrible banking rules and government regulatory decisions. It's true that there was a supply/demand imbalance, but that "bubble" was only possible because of the artificially inflated purchasing power of the consumer. There's a big difference between running up a couple of grand on a credit card and owing $500,000 - $1.5 million on a home. Ebay doesn't run like Freddie Mac. --- End quote --- I will freely admit that there was a lot more factors that went into the housing crash but I was looking at it from people who know nothing about houses are buying houses. Just because you can go out and spend 60 on FFVII doesn't mean that it makes good sense to do it in the same way that with the banks poor lending practices people were able to go out and spend 600,000 on a house that is either A not worth it or B they are not able to afford.... yeah let's just say that comics are a great example and move on :D |
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