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| Warmsignal:
COVID was just hella rocket fuel in the never ending journey to the moon that had already taken off. More stuff, maybe like 10% of every library is becoming priced out of realistic affordability to a large swatch of the collector crowd. CIB collecting is pretty damn well foolish for about 50% of retro collecting now. Like between gen 3 and 6, how many games are over $100 right now? Hundreds of them. I noticed something of a bidding war going on between people clamoring to pay $1500 for a copy of Stunt Racer N64 complete. That kinda stuff blows my mind. Who in their sane mind would pay that much for a single N64 game just to pad out their collection? Obviously the insanely wealthy, or the insanely stupid. It's just another copy of another old video game that you'll probably never bother to play, and you've got $1500 to piss away on it? I'd feel so stupid and guilty, if I did that. I already feel guilty when I pay a couple hundred for one here and there. Because I know even if I played it start to finish and thought it was great, it wasn't worth that. Was never meant to be. That kind of money could serve me better in literally almost any other way. Unless they're honestly investing in the hope that it'll be worth a much larger fortune someday. Who knows, but I wouldn't bank that hard on it. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: Warmsignal on May 20, 2021, 06:04:22 am ---COVID was just hella rocket fuel in the never ending journey to the moon that had already taken off. More stuff, maybe like 10% of every library is becoming priced out of realistic affordability to a large swatch of the collector crowd. CIB collecting is pretty damn well foolish for about 50% of retro collecting now. Like between gen 3 and 6, how many games are over $100 right now? Hundreds of them. I noticed something of a bidding war going on between people clamoring to pay $1500 for a copy of Stunt Racer N64 complete. That kinda stuff blows my mind. Who in their sane mind would pay that much for a single N64 game just to pad out their collection? Obviously the insanely wealthy, or the insanely stupid. --- End quote --- Investors are probably laughing right now when people laughed at them for buying sealed pokemon games even as short as 1-2 years ago let alone the ones that started earlier :o Factory sealed pokemon red selling ungraded for 8 to 10K. that stuff was well under 1000$ even 2 years ago |
| kazumn:
About the pokemon games : fairly sure i still have a bunch sealed Ds games at my parents place of aleast one version or the other since i usually bought both versions when they came out. Pretty sure my dutch box language versions would be going for a lot less money then american versions, same with french and german versions for that matter. pokemon red/blue/yellow doubt a sealed pal copy would be going for even close to what an american version would go for. |
| dharmajones93:
The r/gamecollecting subreddit is a good place to get a feel for what's happening now anyway, even if you're not there for the drama. Every other post is "What should I collect for next" and "I'm 12 years old, how am I doing?" This tells me there is a surplus of people who just started collecting in the last year and have no actual investment in the hobby other than "bored at home with disposable cash" and "my parents handed down their collection to me so now I'm a collector" (read: My parents aren't in to it anymore, and my collection will be sold when I go to college/move out and have to pay my own rent in a few years). I think this bubble will burst soon when all these temporary collectors get out of the game, especially when the youtubers all burn out and stop making retro collecting vids. I'd wager most of us here have been in this hobby for years, if not decades (I started "collecting" as early as 1991). We're in it for the long run, and are (to the best of our abilities) patient. But the new comers just want to grab the expensive stuff/heavy hitters, post their "hauls on the instatwits", and are willing to pay too much for the stuff we grabbed at launch or in bulk in discount bins. They won't stick around and in 5-10 years all that inventory is going to flood ebay again. I don't know what that will do for prices, especially for the heavy hitters, but at least we'll have more choice. Anecdotally I've seen more availability on ebay lately, but haven't been to a shop in a long time. Next month I plan to blow my budget at a few local places; which I'm surprised actually survived to be honest, I know some local places didn't. |
| oldgamerz:
IF You want retro video games and legal retro games? than I'd recommend buying a PC. Because a lot of retro PC games can be bought digitally and there are no hard restrictions when putting them onto a backup external hard drive. Unlike a 2 of the current day consoles where the game depends on an active server for ALL your complete purchases (CHARGED AT FULL PIRCE) YOU NEED PATCHES for most modern games to even run properly and they might not be available forever I met a man who bought a brand NEW PS4 Console AND and a NEW game but never got to it yet because he has a full time job he told me. First off unlike on consoles their is a TON of free of charge online support group for older PC gamers, yes 99% of PC is all digital now but? there are easier ways around to getting modern OR retro PC digtial games to work or to future proof them IF whenever Steam or GOG ever goes offline. |
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