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| The price of retro games in 50 years from now? Theories? Doom? Share. |
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| sloan11:
--- Quote from: dreama1 on April 30, 2016, 03:33:43 am --- --- Quote from: sloan11 on April 30, 2016, 03:29:12 am ---I've been thinking about this lately, too. I'm a youngster just now dipping my toes into retro gaming and loving every second of it... I made the analogy comparing video games to baseball cards the other day. Its not a perfect comparison, but I think there could be some similarities. I hesitate to make the comparison to vinyl... i don't think the 2 products can be compared, but maybe just look at the vinyl market... 15 years ago nobody would've thought vinyls would ever become relevant again, and now they are probably the number one selling physical format for music, and along with that comes an interest in vintage records too.. record shops surging, etc... and the equipment necessary to enjoy records is like consoles needed for carts.. I guess I just say that to make the following point: it can be tough to predict. --- End quote --- What happened with baseball cards exactly? I'm not familiar. They're still popular right? --- End quote --- not nearly like they used to be. from my POV i'd say they are basically dead right now. Just a year or two ago there was only 1 company with an MLB deal to even use MLB logos on their cards! my dad owned baseball card shops years ago (80's, 90's) but all those places dried up and now theres nothing, really. There was a point in time where he traded sets of cars for motor vehicles lol but those same cards today aren't worth hot wheels. i even sold most of my collection (except the sentimental value ones of course!) |
| sloan11:
of course you'll continue to hear about rare babe ruth or Honus Wagner cards being auctioned for millions... i was speaking more about current makes and the retro stuff like 1952 and forward... |
| kmacdw:
50 years from now theoretically all CD based games should be all dead; and DVD's shouldn't be far from following them. Blu-Ray games will still work but the consoles will probably have long broken and I doubt there'll be the right parts to fix them. I'm sure cartridges will still be about but I'd imagine there'll be far less of them and I'd guess that with games that utilise a battery for saving, there'll be none left that still save. Honestly I imagine games will simply be collected as a memento of the past; just the boxes sitting there without the ability to play them. I'd like to think all the games will be preserved and available online though. |
| kmacdw:
--- Quote from: maximo310 on April 30, 2016, 03:06:29 am ---The market isn't going to last another 50 years. Maybe it will for another 5-10, but there's gonna be a point where prices will come crashing down similar to other market's boom and busts over the years. I dunno about VR; not really a fan of it, and I can't really see how its going to usher in a new golden age unless they market it very well. --- End quote --- We need true jacked in VR for it to be any good. I want to be able to put on a headset, lie down on my bed and then control a virtual me in another world. So maybe 20 years from now, we'll have true VR instead of this responsive screen on your head/motion controlled bullshit. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: kmacdw on April 30, 2016, 04:51:02 am ---50 years from now theoretically all CD based games should be all dead; and DVD's shouldn't be far from following them. Blu-Ray games will still work but the consoles will probably have long broken and I doubt there'll be the right parts to fix them. I'm sure cartridges will still be about but I'd imagine there'll be far less of them and I'd guess that with games that utilise a battery for saving, there'll be none left that still save. Honestly I imagine games will simply be collected as a memento of the past; just the boxes sitting there without the ability to play them. I'd like to think all the games will be preserved and available online though. --- End quote --- All games are already preserved online lol. You can already play pretty much all retro games on an emulator. In all seriousness though I do hope that the videogame market crashes since there are so many games that I still want but are way to pricey. Besides I didn't invest much thanks to the deals so I don't care if the value goes down the drain. Still though I fear that after 50 years older games will end up behind glass cases for way higher prices than anyone would pay for them. I think old nintendo and sega stuff might even go as high as collector prices of 1000's - 10.000's wich are already spent on some VG factory sealed games I don't know but it might happen since the games will shrink in amounts, they get damaged and less in excellent shape will survive in the following years. Especially 50 years. |
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