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| How is retro game pricing as of Feb 2018? |
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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: matimo on February 20, 2018, 06:47:14 pm ---Psp is Spiking quite a bit, same with ps2 and n64 stuff from what i've noticed. Nes and snes stuff is starting to drop a bit tho (not that i care about those systems). :P --- End quote --- Psp spiking quite a bit? that has to be a joke Psp prices are cheap even the very few expensive games are laugable compared to other consoles. There are a few limited edition here and there that are in the higher price ranges 100+ $ and some very limited released 300 piece games but those were always expensive to begin with and very limited hard to get anyways. If that's a spike It's a pretty minor one Hexyz force one of the more rare sought after normal games has stayed in the 30 - 40 $ range if I am not mistaken. Psp will never be an expensive console since it mostly is an inferior ps2 console with some exclusives. It's the king of console ports on a handheld nothing more nothing less it is almost never the best way to play a game. Also class of heroes 2 psp very limited release of less than 3000 in 2013 has most definitly not increased it's price maybe even a decrease one can get it for 60 - 80$ factory sealed with certificate I have no clue why one might think psp is spiking in any way. Pretty riciulous considering that the majority of the few expensive games that are on the psp are in the 30 - 50$ range including most of the special editions. Many of those so called expensive games have stayed in those very same prices with a slight in or decrease for many years. |
| scraph4ppy:
--- Quote from: emporerdragon on February 20, 2018, 01:46:09 pm ---Another big thing I'd say is affecting prices is the changing focus of active collectors. A large amount people get into retro game collecting because they want to be nostalgic and get the games of their childhoods. However, with the core demographic (17-35 years old), we're reaching the point where the 4th generation is mostly becoming "before their time", so there's not as much desire to collect those older games. A 20-some year old is now more likely to have grown up with a N64 or PS1 than to have with a SNES or Genesis. --- End quote --- Today's twenty year olds we're five in 2003, they grew up with SpongeBob on PS2. In a few years we'll be dealing with 360 kids and only then will things slow down. And man, if views regarding emulation don't change, working 360s are going to fetch quite a price. |
| tripredacus:
For new used stock, I see some prices coming down, but unfortunately I am not seeing existing priced items getting new price tags. That seems to be the case at any shops selling older games. Ebay is a crap shoot for me. The volume is down and I think that the buyers (maybe indicative of the amount of collectors in total?) are down also. I say this because some things that should sell at listed prices do not, other things can be gotten quite easily. I only look at Auctions for this experience. For Ebay while it seems like it is getting better, because the volume is down it feel more like it is doing a lateral move. I think that once CRT TVs fully disappear from thrift stores is when we will see a big drop in the game market. The small one we are seeing now seems to be relating to that. Because without a proper display, or a proper upscaler, there will be less demand. While we may like to think people collect video games for the heck of it, collectors (of anything) are always in the minority of a market. The common folk had gotten into games, which was why the scalpers/resellers got into it and everyone was trying to sell SMB3 for $50. The dedicated gamers or collectors will always be there, but they do not effect market prices except for certain items. The overall market is dictated by the regular joe, or the other 95% (to use a Hasbro analogy). |
| hoshichiri:
--- Quote from: tripredacus on February 21, 2018, 10:23:37 am ---I think that once CRT TVs fully disappear from thrift stores is when we will see a big drop in the game market. The small one we are seeing now seems to be relating to that. Because without a proper display, or a proper upscaler, there will be less demand. While we may like to think people collect video games for the heck of it, collectors (of anything) are always in the minority of a market. The common folk had gotten into games, which was why the scalpers/resellers got into it and everyone was trying to sell SMB3 for $50. The dedicated gamers or collectors will always be there, but they do not effect market prices except for certain items. The overall market is dictated by the regular joe, or the other 95% (to use a Hasbro analogy). --- End quote --- I'm not so sure about this one- while CRT TVs impeding scarcity will affect certain things, the biggest systems (NES, SNES, Genesis) have many modern clones that are HDMI friendly. Couple that with many (if not all) newer TVs still supporting composite, and the 'average joes' really aren't going to have any trouble finding a way to play these old games. I imagine the few who aren't content with the blurry composite input on their HDTV will be the few willing to ask at a game store/online & will know about the clone systems and upscalers as a result. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: hoshichiri on February 21, 2018, 02:29:37 pm --- --- Quote from: tripredacus on February 21, 2018, 10:23:37 am ---I think that once CRT TVs fully disappear from thrift stores is when we will see a big drop in the game market. The small one we are seeing now seems to be relating to that. Because without a proper display, or a proper upscaler, there will be less demand. While we may like to think people collect video games for the heck of it, collectors (of anything) are always in the minority of a market. The common folk had gotten into games, which was why the scalpers/resellers got into it and everyone was trying to sell SMB3 for $50. The dedicated gamers or collectors will always be there, but they do not effect market prices except for certain items. The overall market is dictated by the regular joe, or the other 95% (to use a Hasbro analogy). --- End quote --- I'm not so sure about this one- while CRT TVs impeding scarcity will affect certain things, the biggest systems (NES, SNES, Genesis) have many modern clones that are HDMI friendly. Couple that with many (if not all) newer TVs still supporting composite, and the 'average joes' really aren't going to have any trouble finding a way to play these old games. I imagine the few who aren't content with the blurry composite input on their HDTV will be the few willing to ask at a game store/online & will know about the clone systems and upscalers as a result. --- End quote --- I will give him credit though the regular joe theory for the more hyped good games. It's mainly thanks to the gameplay that prices have become that high in this hobby rarity is a bonus for those who want to get deeper into the hobby to get all the rare items for a said nostalgic console, if people seek nostalgic things to the past they don't mind to spend some there are limits though. Only a mere fraction is a serious collector especially with full sets. That mere fraction usually finds more enjoyment into collecting than actually enjoying the gameplay of the better games but the ones that are actually playing them games are the once that increased those prices to begin with except for the very rare items that only very few people aside from the hardcore collectors care about. Than again to each their own everyone has different things to enjoy in the hobby. Still though I would have expected perfect cheap emulation or flash carts to have a more solid effect on the prices. Than again maybe it has since lose carts are not that expensive and cib collectors are a diffrent breed compared to most collectors since they want the real deal and spend allot more on the cardboard than the cardridge since the differences in prices are usually multiple times the value of lose carts when the condition is nice. |
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