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| dreama1:
I heard retro game prices have peaked, and are beginning a slow decline as of 2016/2017. Examples include earthbound and wild guns. Any truth to this? |
| basscross64:
I'm not too sure about that. I paid $310 recently for a bundle of six games and a Gamecube memory card, those being Earthbound ($200), complete in box Mega Man 2 ($70) and Donkey Kong Country ($30). I got three other free games that I wanted with them and I paid $10 for the memory card. A few years ago I remember seeing Earthbound for $100 and thinking it was ridiculous but prices have shot up tremendously since then. Personally I'd never pay more than $100 for any game, but the lot came out to $50/game so it was alright. I think that prices have perhaps stagnated, rather than decreased. |
| fazerco:
6 months gone by already? |
| ferraroso:
Everytime I hear the prices people use to pay for retro games in the US I feel that I could NEVER be a collector if I lived there. Why don't you guys try buying from Japanese sites instead? For the price of this Donkey Kong Country you could easily bundle the whole trilogy AND a Super Famicom console CIB around here... I understand that it is not practical to play RPGs in Japanese, but other genres (such as platformers) do not suffer from any language barrier. |
| sworddude:
@ferraroso There are already plenty of people who do this with nintendo consoles i have seen it especially with N64 That being said high prices can also be used as an advantage to aquire pieces. Back on topic Prices lowering I don't think so at least in europe If you can move cib copies of star wing snes or mario 64 in very good shape to excellent for around 40 euro's excluding shipping I wouldn't say that prices are lowering especially since it was 20 - 30. 1 year ago. Especially mario 64 was near the 20 euro's range in nice shape. games like zelda are still rising in price even common games like ocarina of time complete in box are nearing 50 euro's in excellent shape wich were only 30 euro's at best cib in superb shape a bit more than 1 year ago. now even in decent shape it is easy 30 euro's in the black market. I don't know the status in The US but in europe I guess the supply of great condition stuff is less. There are far more copies available in the US of certain games also in excellent condition. The really expensive games overall have risen in price in europe, There are however games like castlevania symphony of the night panzer dragoon saga and some other expensive rarities that have remained the same value. Nes in europe has been insane, I remember megaman 2 cib being like 30 - 40 euro's around one year ago for thelongest time easy everywhere at best cib. At the moment however it seems to have risen to around 60 - 80 euro's that was kinda shocking how that happened :o In europe it seems to get more expensive. There are games that have stayed the same price but there are also many examples that have become more expensive especially the common good games. |
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