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| patrickmeansly:
we all know that some games are rare and expensive and some are not rare and still expensive. examples: earthbound snes, flintstones nes, etc. Over the next 20 to 30 years, do you guys expect that value of retro games to stay the same, go way up, or go down???? Maybe some games that are 200 dollars maybe in the thousands??? I'm just curious of your thoughts. Thanks for your time. |
| htimreimer:
that a hard question to answer because video game collecting is still in its infancy and because of it infancy, prices go up and down every day and nothing gets established |
| insektmute:
I think it's too broad of a question. There are some games that will always be cheap, some that will fluctuate, and some that will always sell for obscene amounts. Original print run, platform, version differences, all this stuff can have an impact, even if a re-release is subjectively "better" than the original. I think the only area where we'll see a more strict dividing line is with hardware breaking down over time, and limiting the number of reliable units around, but we're a long way off from that. |
| ffxik:
With any collectors markets there will be an ebb and flow in prices, As of right now people are finally getting sick of the sky high prices. We may see some ebb happening in the near future. I don't know if games will get as high as you are speculating, but it's something to keep an eye on. |
| sin2beta:
I will take the opposite opinion and say that prices will stabilize as time goes on. Fluctuation, although always present, will become virtually unnoticeable. John "Gamester81" does a series of fantastic interviews with the Joe, owner of atari2600.com. In fact, the latest episode talked specifically about pricing. He mentions that most of the old games have stabilized in prices. He just started carrying NES stuff and those prices fluctuate a lot more right now. Now even the atari 2600 has some rare games that sell for very little. But it also has games that sell for insane amounts. But the prices are fairly constant. For current stuff, I imagine the only games that will sell for ridiculous amounts are rare AND good games. Panzer Dragoon Saga and Snatcher come to mind. Panzer Dragoon Saga will become much more expensive is my guess due to only being on the saturn. Also, it seems that finding it on virtual console or XBLA will be slim due to various things like "losing the source code". Here is the Joe interview |
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