How desirable will the 7th Generation Systems be to collectors?

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pizzasafari:
Weirdly enough, I'm suddenly finding myself having a lot more fun than before playing the PS3 since the PS4 generation started. I'm not sure why, it just feels really good to play all of a sudden for some reason. Maybe because it's close in technical quality to PS4 games but without as much of the faffing around. I think it's probably gonna be a main focus for me, at least, so I'll probably be buying a lot more PS3 games. As for other people, hard to predict, but once people who grew up with the PS3 become the new collectors I don't see why it wouldn't be a collectible system in the same way the PS1 and 2 are.

Xbox 360 I haven't really cared about at all since getting my PS3, the Wii I've never liked.

dreama1:
You might be overestimating the Xbox Brand. The prices have risen for the original xbox. It's hard to find some of the exclusives for a cheap price.

marvelvscapcom2:
I'm mostly basing my answer off of their current popularity among collectors and nostalgia lovers. It's a good tell tale sign looking at the current market of Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360. I for the most part agree with everything you said.

Wii - B It's nintendo lol. Anything with the big N on it someone, somewhere will want to buy and love it like a new born child. I already know at least 3 friends going for full Wii U and Wii sets. That love the console very whole heartedly. Nintendo seems to always retain more replay value and collectbility for the sole fact that they make single player masterpieces and PS3 and 360 make disposable first person shooters and tons of online only filler that people will forget about in 10 years. Now totally but a good portion. Do I love PS3 and 360 way more? Definitely. But Wii will always have way more nostalgia among kids.

PS3 - C- Honestly, it has so much filler. So many cross platform games. So many games that either got remastered on PS4, were already on PS2, or got replaced by bigger better titles in the same franchise like all the need for speeds, call of dutys, maddens and racing games. It's gran turismo franchise fell flat compared to the PS2 ones. 1 good sly game was also on Vita. A lot of cool collections. Games like Uncharted got a remaster, so did god of war, last of us and all the heavy hitters. It's only main niche and why it will be a C- is the JRPGs it does have. Many want them and will collect them. It does have many exclusive RPG quality. But not enough to compare it to many of consoles.

Xbox 360 - D+ It's a odd phenomenon that I can't explain. Xbox is always my favorite during the moment. But later on when 10+ years pass. I like collecting Nintendo and Playstation slightly more. I just don't find it collectible. I really try to get into collecting 360 and it just seems like not as fun and soulful as collecting playstation and Nintendo. Can't put my finger on as to why. But maybe i'll change that soon. I do love it very much :).

sworddude:
I agree in terms of retro collecting for the original xbox

wii is already somewhat collectible more so than original xbox by allot. xbox might be somewhere at the very bottom in terms of people collecting older games go if we would exclude xbox 360 and ps3.

Not to mention xbox sales weren't that great in the past it did almost as bad as the gamecube, allot of xbox games even in terms of the more common games have way less supply of games and can be tough to find at times. even though the rare games have way less supply than the rare games on gamecube or ps2 etc wich go for way more there are just way less collectors and many of the rare games except for a select few aren't that pricy as a result even if they happen to be pretty good. also the excellent exclusives wich are uncommon at the very least aren't that pricy compared to the other consoles.

it also doesn't help that the og xbox library in general isn't that great and pretty small in terms of excusives wich might be the main reason why there are way less collectors for xbox than there are for ps2 and gamecube.

xbox 360 will be at the very bottom as far as collecting goes, but I would not put much distance between ps3 and xbox 360 to be honest. Those generations with pretty much every game having a collectors edition steel book editions, multiple versions of normal games etc etc, These systems where made to collect while in the past it was to play and not to collect in the slightest with pretty much only 1 single normal version of a game, special editions where rare to non existant except if you would live in japan in wich case there where allot more CE even for the older games. I'm pretty sure supply for the xbox 360 and ps3 will be plenty compared to the people wanting to seriously collect for the system.

dreama1:
We'll know for sure by 2030.

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