How is retro game pricing as of Feb 2018?

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scraph4ppy:
I don't know if its that LRG itself will be associated with quality, (I personally think their indie games will come off as being very dated ten or twenty years from now,) as it is that they will be "rare" Vita/PS4/Switch games. Just like how DK64 NFRS is a couple hundred bucks even though its actually worse to play than the regular (and already not all that good) version of the game. Of course I also said that it would be like PC collecting where going for "completion" outside of like a certain company or series is impossible. My closet and attic are chock full of rare and theoretically expensive PC games that just would not sell for that price at a regular game store. I can't help but wonder if LRG will end up the same way.

tripredacus:

--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 24, 2018, 03:01:51 pm ---What? Where do you get the idea that most movie collectors collect exclusively one format?

My dad was a movie collector. I have always been around that and comics because of him. I inherited what he had left when he passed away, as well. Guess what, he didn't have betamax either. He had VHS and DVD.

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Believe it or not, I am a movie collector also. I have more movies than video games (maybe even if you included Steam! :o )

I currently own movies in 12 physical formats. But I would think that most collectors are going to be sticking with the top-end formats of VHS/DVD/BD. I am sure that single format collectors do exist. I have a Betamax player, as you should be able to tell from my pick-up photos I have put in this thread. It doesn't work tho. I've never owned a working one. The top loading Beta players are not expensize, but they are heavy and expensive to ship. The expensive players are the front-loaders, and especially the red front loader! Curiously, the best price for a player often ends up being in the professional range, for whatever that reason is.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: tripredacus on February 26, 2018, 09:49:58 am ---
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 24, 2018, 03:01:51 pm ---What? Where do you get the idea that most movie collectors collect exclusively one format?

My dad was a movie collector. I have always been around that and comics because of him. I inherited what he had left when he passed away, as well. Guess what, he didn't have betamax either. He had VHS and DVD.

--- End quote ---

Believe it or not, I am a movie collector also. I have more movies than video games (maybe even if you included Steam! :o )

I currently own movies in 12 physical formats. But I would think that most collectors are going to be sticking with the top-end formats of VHS/DVD/BD. I am sure that single format collectors do exist. I have a Betamax player, as you should be able to tell from my pick-up photos I have put in this thread. It doesn't work tho. I've never owned a working one. The top loading Beta players are not expensize, but they are heavy and expensive to ship. The expensive players are the front-loaders, and especially the red front loader! Curiously, the best price for a player often ends up being in the professional range, for whatever that reason is.

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So the proffesional range beta max players are the cheapest?

tripredacus:

--- Quote from: sworddude on February 26, 2018, 10:32:26 am ---
--- Quote from: tripredacus on February 26, 2018, 09:49:58 am ---
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 24, 2018, 03:01:51 pm ---What? Where do you get the idea that most movie collectors collect exclusively one format?

My dad was a movie collector. I have always been around that and comics because of him. I inherited what he had left when he passed away, as well. Guess what, he didn't have betamax either. He had VHS and DVD.

--- End quote ---

Believe it or not, I am a movie collector also. I have more movies than video games (maybe even if you included Steam! :o )

I currently own movies in 12 physical formats. But I would think that most collectors are going to be sticking with the top-end formats of VHS/DVD/BD. I am sure that single format collectors do exist. I have a Betamax player, as you should be able to tell from my pick-up photos I have put in this thread. It doesn't work tho. I've never owned a working one. The top loading Beta players are not expensize, but they are heavy and expensive to ship. The expensive players are the front-loaders, and especially the red front loader! Curiously, the best price for a player often ends up being in the professional range, for whatever that reason is.

--- End quote ---

So the proffesional range beta max players are the cheapest?

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In my experience of looking on Ebay for prices (as noted I still don't have a working one) it seems that non-consumer (pro or portable) models, sold as "working" or not "for parts" are, on average, lower in price than consumer front-loaders. I'm only talking about Sony/US models. Some of the portables (like the SL2000) are technically a consumer model, but is designed to be used with a betamax camera, rather than to just watch movies. There is also the consideration that anything "fancy" such as the red player, or a Hi-Fi model, will be better and thus higher in price. The price ranges for players on Ebay are all over the place, so it is hard to judge the actual of value of these, aside from the "fancy" models.

Laserdisc players are tighter on prices per feature, but VCRs are not anywhere near relatable. You can still get away with using a 4 head Hi-Fi VCR on composite and only pay $5 for the thing. My main VCR would be considered a $5 VCR nowadays, even though I paid $60 or something for it in 1998. It looks fine on the TV and the surround works fine on tapes that support it.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: tripredacus on February 26, 2018, 12:43:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: sworddude on February 26, 2018, 10:32:26 am ---
--- Quote from: tripredacus on February 26, 2018, 09:49:58 am ---
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 24, 2018, 03:01:51 pm ---What? Where do you get the idea that most movie collectors collect exclusively one format?

My dad was a movie collector. I have always been around that and comics because of him. I inherited what he had left when he passed away, as well. Guess what, he didn't have betamax either. He had VHS and DVD.

--- End quote ---

Believe it or not, I am a movie collector also. I have more movies than video games (maybe even if you included Steam! :o )

I currently own movies in 12 physical formats. But I would think that most collectors are going to be sticking with the top-end formats of VHS/DVD/BD. I am sure that single format collectors do exist. I have a Betamax player, as you should be able to tell from my pick-up photos I have put in this thread. It doesn't work tho. I've never owned a working one. The top loading Beta players are not expensize, but they are heavy and expensive to ship. The expensive players are the front-loaders, and especially the red front loader! Curiously, the best price for a player often ends up being in the professional range, for whatever that reason is.

--- End quote ---

So the proffesional range beta max players are the cheapest?

--- End quote ---

In my experience of looking on Ebay for prices (as noted I still don't have a working one) it seems that non-consumer (pro or portable) models, sold as "working" or not "for parts" are, on average, lower in price than consumer front-loaders. I'm only talking about Sony/US models. Some of the portables (like the SL2000) are technically a consumer model, but is designed to be used with a betamax camera, rather than to just watch movies. There is also the consideration that anything "fancy" such as the red player, or a Hi-Fi model, will be better and thus higher in price. The price ranges for players on Ebay are all over the place, so it is hard to judge the actual of value of these, aside from the "fancy" models.

Laserdisc players are tighter on prices per feature, but VCRs are not anywhere near relatable. You can still get away with using a 4 head Hi-Fi VCR on composite and only pay $5 for the thing. My main VCR would be considered a $5 VCR nowadays, even though I paid $60 or something for it in 1998. It looks fine on the TV and the surround works fine on tapes that support it.

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Interesting with pc And CRT monitors the proffesional ones are the way to go and can be priced ridiculously. Those PVM or BVM sony screens sometimes over 1K $. Than again for those things your average consumer could not get their hands on one since it was only sold to proffesionals for a business not to mention the way higher retail price than the most high end available units for your average consumers. Nowadays the high end best stuff is also available to the general public not to mention that the PC's on work spaces are pretty average and in most cases unlike back in the day were they were high end better than the best consumer units. Even the places that need the best stuff for certain tasks can be matched if some are dedicated enough to spend allot more than the average ones.

Maybe with betamax players since it was a failed format proffesionalls stopped using them units pretty soon so also the general public got the better ones wich were made later. Not to mention that beta max players were already more expensive than your vhs players. Also as far as fancy ones go, I have noticed that some machines even though they are not superior are collectible because they look nice just for show if were looking at other things.

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