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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on April 12, 2018, 06:35:23 am --- --- Quote from: dharmajones93 on April 11, 2018, 01:39:30 pm ---I of course can empathize with the OP. They are at a somewhat unreasonable price. I have noticed them peak, if not come down in the last two years. I've just used it as an opportunity to get ahead of the curb and grab the PSX and N64 games I want before they skyrocket. Just being patient with the SNES for now and only getting games I know I will play soon. To combat this, I have been getting the Genesis/Mega Drive versions of games when possible. Contrary to SNES, it is hard to find a game for more than $20, at least in my neck of the woods. They are not what I am nostalgic for, but sometimes when I sit down with the games I realize that the genny versions are sometimes better than what I remember on the SNES (Earthworm Jim, for example). --- End quote --- N64 has gotten quite outrageous too as of late. I'm glad you beat the spike :). I used to always upset myself about the price changes. How a game as common as smash melee can cost 60-70 bucks. But then I tried to find a silver lining and it was hard but here is how I convinced myself. I kinda see it as a mixed blessing. On one hand the pricing makes it so us collectors get their wallet's beatened everytime we move the wrong way or want something we actually love because resellers want to send their kids to college like thevious manipulating snakes, hipsters buy them all and resell them and all and all the market suffers ridiculous price spikes that hurt everyone other than the sellers. But at the same time it seems other consoles cool down when ones get hot. And our collections value not only in terms of money but trade value increases along with the rates. It makes it so any doubles us collector's already have such as say you have 2 copies of Mario Party or Chrono Trigger. It makes it so we can get other things we want from other platforms easier just because everyone is so quick to buy those games. :D One way of looking at it anyway :) It's really depressing though but I guess it comes with the surge of the new comers and just the landscape of collecting things and the more time passes the worst it'll get. I reckon we'll see a day when Smash Melee is a few thousand dollars. It's that bad and the saddest part is some desperate collector would pay it if it were the only means. Resellers can dictate whatever price they want and if every other seller followed suit we'd always pay it. Which is unfair. --- End quote --- Pretty much no collectors buy smash bros melee The people who play this game the tournament scene pay these insane high prices since they really need it and it's pretty big people make a living out of it even some of the lesser players not to mention the fanbase thanks to the hyped tournament scene. Not to mention with the many mods and talented technical people in that community I'm pretty sure they'l make something custom or even digital after some years to make the game free thus the original not usuable as reliable just as a collectors piece wich will make smash bros melee drop in price. actually they already made a training kit wich does not need the original if i am not mistaken so the original game could also be done that way I figure. |
| dharmajones93:
I, thankfully, have no expectation that my collection be valuable in the future. But it does hurt in the here and now when I see prices of games I would like to play. The Chrono Triggers, FFII, FFIII, Secret of Manas, and Earthbounds are all games I would really like to PLAY on original hardware. I have them all here or there, but not on SNES. I guess it's a shame, but I've waited 30 years to play them, I can wait a bit longer until the "hipsters" lose faith in their inventory and look to liquidate ;) I also fortunately have quite a few of the heavy hitters from my original purchases. Still have my original SSB Melee! I've not seen the hike in N64, but I believe it. The 20 somethings now likely grew up with it, where it was the last great console before college for me when the consoles got left in my parent's basement. |
| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: dharmajones93 on April 12, 2018, 10:43:23 am ---I, thankfully, have no expectation that my collection be valuable in the future. But it does hurt in the here and now when I see prices of games I would like to play. The Chrono Triggers, FFII, FFIII, Secret of Manas, and Earthbounds are all games I would really like to PLAY on original hardware. I have them all here or there, but not on SNES. I guess it's a shame, but I've waited 30 years to play them, I can wait a bit longer until the "hipsters" lose faith in their inventory and look to liquidate ;) I also fortunately have quite a few of the heavy hitters from my original purchases. Still have my original SSB Melee! I've not seen the hike in N64, but I believe it. The 20 somethings now likely grew up with it, where it was the last great console before college for me when the consoles got left in my parent's basement. --- End quote --- Those particular games won't go down in value. Those were expensive before the retro-gaming bug ever hit. I remember seeing used copies of the FF games and Chrono Trigger in Software Etc. (before being bought out by GameStop) for $60-$70 used back in the late 90s. |
| dharmajones93:
Boo... I believe it though. I've also heard on a few occasions copies of Earthbound in discount bins. The other ones were over $80-90 when they launched. those would be like $120 new in our market. Crazy to think of! So, I suppose at $45-60 now for those carts aren't too bad. Yet, somehow a $90 (launch price) N64 cart can be had for less than $20. It's just weird I guess. The price we pay for a sticker, plastic and silicon. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: dharmajones93 on April 12, 2018, 03:47:49 pm ---The price we pay for a sticker, plastic and silicon. --- End quote --- Same can be said for most other collectibles and those are way more overpriced especially for ones who are no fans of that genre Graded comics art etc those are way worse and out of reach to allot of people. Still though many of the rare disirable games were never cheap from the very beginning. Path of radiance was never a cheap game I'm pretty sure it was always around or slightly below the brand new value before it sky rocketed in the 100+ range. it was 40 50 many years ago at least the european version that is and that was before the gamecube craze titles like gotcha force was just 20 - 30 $ back than. Panzer dragoon saga was also a pretty expensive game since it was very rare never cheap. However the chances of people not knowing what they had were obviously higher back than. |
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