How is retro game pricing as of Feb 2018?

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bikingjahuty:
Anyone saying certain console prices are "spiking" right now are completely wrong. Nothing is spiking overall right now. Nearly everything is plateauing or falling right now. Some consoles were falling pretty hard and then experienced a slight uptick because of people probably capitalizing on the lower prices, creating demand, which drove prices up a little.

As many have said, interest is vanishing among the community, collections are being sold off, and there is a lot of burnout too. Anyone entering the hobby right now or really for the past 4-years is not going to enjoy it like those of us who got into it before that and could find 50 game NES lots for $50 or other awesome deals like that.

This really makes me wonder what the retro gaming community will look like in 5-year or even 10-years from now. Kids that were born in the early/mid 2000s will be the same age as most of us when we got into collecting NES or Genesis games, and obviously most of them have never known what it's like to game on anything that doesn't use CDs, at least for home consoles. At this point I can't see any retro console having more than a handful or really expensive games ($50+), pretty much the same as modern Atari prices.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 21, 2018, 10:19:56 pm ---Anyone saying certain console prices are "spiking" right now are completely wrong. Nothing is spiking overall right now. Nearly everything is plateauing or falling right now. Some consoles were falling pretty hard and then experienced a slight uptick because of people probably capitalizing on the lower prices, creating demand, which drove prices up a little.

As many have said, interest is vanishing among the community, collections are being sold off, and there is a lot of burnout too. Anyone entering the hobby right now or really for the past 4-years is not going to enjoy it like those of us who got into it before that and could find 50 game NES lots for $50 or other awesome deals like that.

This really makes me wonder what the retro gaming community will look like in 5-year or even 10-years from now. Kids that were born in the early/mid 2000s will be the same age as most of us when we got into collecting NES or Genesis games, and obviously most of them have never known what it's like to game on anything that doesn't use CDs, at least for home consoles. At this point I can't see any retro console having more than a handful or really expensive games ($50+), pretty much the same as modern Atari prices.

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Still though I really wonder what will happen with those limited run ps4 games.

I personally would hardly believe that the new generations are the ones that are interested in those even if they grew up with ps4 more for the older generations if I might guess.

hoshichiri:

--- Quote from: sworddude on February 22, 2018, 07:27:23 am ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 21, 2018, 10:19:56 pm ---Anyone saying certain console prices are "spiking" right now are completely wrong. Nothing is spiking overall right now. Nearly everything is plateauing or falling right now. Some consoles were falling pretty hard and then experienced a slight uptick because of people probably capitalizing on the lower prices, creating demand, which drove prices up a little.

As many have said, interest is vanishing among the community, collections are being sold off, and there is a lot of burnout too. Anyone entering the hobby right now or really for the past 4-years is not going to enjoy it like those of us who got into it before that and could find 50 game NES lots for $50 or other awesome deals like that.

This really makes me wonder what the retro gaming community will look like in 5-year or even 10-years from now. Kids that were born in the early/mid 2000s will be the same age as most of us when we got into collecting NES or Genesis games, and obviously most of them have never known what it's like to game on anything that doesn't use CDs, at least for home consoles. At this point I can't see any retro console having more than a handful or really expensive games ($50+), pretty much the same as modern Atari prices.

--- End quote ---

Still though I really wonder what will happen with those limited run ps4 games.

I personally would hardly believe that the new generations are the ones that are interested in those even if they grew up with ps4 more for the older generations if I might guess.

--- End quote ---

I imagine they'll be sought-after collectables, assuming by the time the ps4 kids grow up enough to have nostalgia money that buying physical anything is still something people do.

I mean, if you look at the games that garner the really big bucks these days, it's the stuff that's fun to play, but didn't sell well. It's not like the people who ran up the price on Little Samson and Earthbound did so becuase they grew up with the games. It's more of a word of mouth thing... adult fans looking to maybe try something new, learn about these games years later & want to give it a go.

That will work in LRG's favor later on, when people remember the games from their digital downloads but can't buy them anymore becuase the store is offline. People will start hunting down LRG's 'good' game releases, which will cause the others to go at least somewhat by association. Kind of like the 'I don't know what this is, but it's Altus so I'll take it' that I experienced at a con swap years ago.

tripredacus:

--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 21, 2018, 10:19:56 pm ---there is a lot of burnout too.

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I think another factor is that there are a lot of other options besides having to track down carts. Many longtime collectors are getting out of buying physical games (besides perhaps some high value items) and buying flashcarts. New flashcarts are coming out for new consoles all the time. Krikkz has the Everdrives and Terraonion released their NeoSD for AES and MVS and just recently the Super SD 3 for PC Engine/PCE CD/Turbo Grafx 16. Options like these take collectors out of the market because then they don't have to buy carts to play games anymore.

And Nintendo has figured out how to get people to pay for roms, which started with Virtual Console, but the obviously more popular NES and SNES mini. People with a nostalgia for Nintendo games are buying these and this is taking people out of the market as well.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: hoshichiri on February 22, 2018, 09:44:32 am ---
--- Quote from: sworddude on February 22, 2018, 07:27:23 am ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 21, 2018, 10:19:56 pm ---Anyone saying certain console prices are "spiking" right now are completely wrong. Nothing is spiking overall right now. Nearly everything is plateauing or falling right now. Some consoles were falling pretty hard and then experienced a slight uptick because of people probably capitalizing on the lower prices, creating demand, which drove prices up a little.

As many have said, interest is vanishing among the community, collections are being sold off, and there is a lot of burnout too. Anyone entering the hobby right now or really for the past 4-years is not going to enjoy it like those of us who got into it before that and could find 50 game NES lots for $50 or other awesome deals like that.

This really makes me wonder what the retro gaming community will look like in 5-year or even 10-years from now. Kids that were born in the early/mid 2000s will be the same age as most of us when we got into collecting NES or Genesis games, and obviously most of them have never known what it's like to game on anything that doesn't use CDs, at least for home consoles. At this point I can't see any retro console having more than a handful or really expensive games ($50+), pretty much the same as modern Atari prices.

--- End quote ---

Still though I really wonder what will happen with those limited run ps4 games.

I personally would hardly believe that the new generations are the ones that are interested in those even if they grew up with ps4 more for the older generations if I might guess.

--- End quote ---

I imagine they'll be sought-after collectables, assuming by the time the ps4 kids grow up enough to have nostalgia money that buying physical anything is still something people do.

I mean, if you look at the games that garner the really big bucks these days, it's the stuff that's fun to play, but didn't sell well. It's not like the people who ran up the price on Little Samson and Earthbound did so becuase they grew up with the games. It's more of a word of mouth thing... adult fans looking to maybe try something new, learn about these games years later & want to give it a go.

That will work in LRG's favor later on, when people remember the games from their digital downloads but can't buy them anymore becuase the store is offline. People will start hunting down LRG's 'good' game releases, which will cause the others to go at least somewhat by association. Kind of like the 'I don't know what this is, but it's Altus so I'll take it' that I experienced at a con swap years ago.

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but most LRG releases are based of old games why would a new generation be interested in say shantaea or some old shoot em ups with some extra options wild guns reloaded not LRG but still would make little sense to me.

I can understand some popular normal games horizon dawn witcher gravity rush actual ps4 games but not indy games based on older games.

Also little samson and earthbound are the kind of games that people like that being said many of the more affordable sought after games have somewhat the same genre's so It's not really the same like the indy retro scene on ps4.

Little samson is an action platformer people dig these kind of games on 8 bit systems plenty of other nes games that fit that genre it just so happens that little samson is one of the better ones. Earthbound is an old school rpg with a different twist but still the kind of game that people dig so obviously many people want to own and play them.

Also some ps2 shoot emups that are pretty high priced in europe do not fitt the bill for your ps2 nostalgia collector, maybe an excuse for some sega saturn lovers etc since those are arcade ports of old games mostly of those older sega consoles or arcade machines only. I'm pretty sure different collectors than ps2 nostalgia collectors. Rules of rose kuon I guess since survival horror is a big thing on ps2 and people love that genre thanks to the actual popular games like resident evil and silent hill.

I agree with the word to mouth thing since most likely not many have played these rare games but at the very least they fit the genres of the more popular classics of that generation I'm not seeing that with those LRG on ps4 since those are games based on the past. In my opinion probably allot of collectors who find the ps4 to fill their gap for retro stuff older generations of collectors.

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