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| soera:
Every place now is jumping on the bandwagon as far as selling games for ebay prices. One of the Goodwills in my area recently got DW 1-4 in box as well as a copy of Sword master in box. I was damn excited ... til I saw the price. I tend to agree that this bubble will never totally pop. Ill get Earthbound one day but its going to be a lucky find day. Same with Rayearth and Centy. |
| sin2beta:
--- Quote from: darko on January 31, 2013, 11:59:03 pm ---I was pondering video game pricing earlier this evening. It's pretty much a given than if you collect you more than likely grew up playing video games. Video games are more than likely going to continue on as one of Generation Y's (and younger) primary sources of entertainment. This will, in turn, provide a fairly stable marketplace and a perpetual pool of collectors for years to come. The number of rare titles will diminish as we progress further away from physical media, but there will more than likely always be some form of demand present. Video games are part of what define Generation Y and most of us will continue to purchase and play video games until we are physically or mentally unable to do so. Demand will fluctuate from console to console and from game to game. Prices will (obviously) follow demand. However, I have a very difficult time believing that we are in a true "bubble". As those of us who collect continue to grow older and our disposable incomes increase, it will become easier and easier to justify the price of what we want be it video games, cars, houses, etc. This should keep prices pretty stable on an average basis. Does this mean that Earthbound will always be over $200 for cart only? No. However, I highly doubt it will permanently fall below the $60-$100 range. History tells us that the best time to buy games at a discount is during the first few years of a new console cycle. When new systems come out the games for their predecessors drop as stores make way for new inventory. It's all about supply versus demand coupled with what someone is willing to pay. Unfortunately, I don't see an enormous bubble like many of you seem to. --- End quote --- I think what you say makes sense. However, I do not think that generations beyond Gen Y will be too into collecting games (EDIT: games before their time). I am in Gen Y (at least in some definitions of beginning year ranges... I was born in 86) and I have absolutely no interest in collecting atari, colecovision, etc. People rarely collect what they did not have growing up. Also, as years go on. More people leave collecting than get into it. The comic shop I go to every wednesday will fairly often get boxes upon boxes donated by customers whose wives (and sometimes husbands... but mostly wives) demand they get rid of those boxes of useless %*^&. With disposable income comes the potential to collect. With life comes the abandonment of collecting. Just in the short time I have been collecting, I have seen numerous people sell off their collection. There is even a youtube tag going around asking "how much is too much". You can see a lot of people on the fence about keeping their collections and the frustrations they have. At some point, more people leave than get into the hobby. |
| tripredacus:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on January 31, 2013, 10:42:58 pm ---Goodwill is pretty much the only place I can find good deals on video games anymore. Even the local flea market sellers thinks they have gold on their hands if they come across an NES cartridge. --- End quote --- Thrift stores are primarily where I get my games from nowadays. Most of the time the people there are older and don't know what things are. For example, I got Pokemon blue for a quarter last year sometime. The only difference is Goodwill actually knows what some things are, since they have that auction site. But that doesn't mean some deals still can be found. |
| insektmute:
--- Quote from: jcalder8 on January 28, 2013, 11:54:50 am ---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. --- End quote --- Massive flashbacks here to the 90's "speculator boom" that practically killed the entire industry. I remember a lot of companies who went under as a result, too - all that money coming in, then poof, all gone, and tons of companies left with thousands upon thousands of overprinted books that you couldn't even give away to people once the dust cleared. |
| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: insektmute on February 01, 2013, 09:16:34 pm --- --- Quote from: jcalder8 on January 28, 2013, 11:54:50 am ---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. --- End quote --- Massive flashbacks here to the 90's "speculator boom" that practically killed the entire industry. I remember a lot of companies who went under as a result, too - all that money coming in, then poof, all gone, and tons of companies left with thousands upon thousands of overprinted books that you couldn't even give away to people once the dust cleared. --- End quote --- Heh, I'm a big collector of both comics and video games. And if retro games are anything like comic books, then in just a few years retro-games will be dirt cheap when the market busts (except for those truly rare games that really do deserve a high price, the same can be said for comics). |
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