Ever Bought a Game with No Plans on Opening it?

[telekill]

So I decided to bite the bullet and pick up a copy of 3D Mario All Stars as Nintendo is stopping production on the physical editions this week. I got the last copy at my local Target and I have zero plans on opening it. I'm just going to keep it sealed and wait for the price to spike up as many Nintendo titles have shown in the past to do.... especially those that have fewer copies released.

I've never actually done this before so it feels odd. I have a little bit of interest in replaying Sunshine and maybe revisit Mario 64 for the nostalgia but it wasn't enough to make me bother opening it. I really don't have the time these days.

Have any of you done this before? Did you pick up 3D Mario All Stars?

[burningdoom]

Nope, never. If I buy it, I plan on playing it...even if that may take me months or years to get to it, lol.

I did get that one. Wanted to play Super Mario 64 with a good controller (I have the pro controller). Always hated the N64 controller, and the DS controls aren't ideal, either.

[kamikazekeeg]

I've mostly only done this with games I want for collecting sake, like I already owned Sunset Overdrive when it went up on Steam, but I loved the game so much, I wanted to show my support by buying the physical PC release because it was a nice physical release.  I actually can't remember if I opened it or not.  I'm not against buying something for the possibility it'll go up in price, I've done that with toys that I'm not 100% sure if I'll keep or not.

And while initially I was excited for 3D Mario All Stars, I decided to not buy it because it was lacking Super Mario Galaxy 2, which is a huge oversight and the whole release seems half-assed as mostly just being rom dumps with minor tweaks.  Nintendo has been dropping the ball with stuff for abit now and it's just aggravating when we know Nintendo could be hitting some super easy home runs with more of their stuff.  I am hoping they just put the games separately on the eshop eventually, as this whole limited release is really awful and I don't expect it to go up in price too much because there are millions of copies of the game out there.

[ffxik]

I have games I haven't opened,...yet.

I don't buy just to keep sealed.  Usually I'll take the wrap off even if I know I won't be getting to it for a while.

[snyderec3]

I don't collect sealed, so no.

That isn't to say I don't have sealed games, I just haven't gotten to them yet. The intent was never to keep them that way.

[weirdfeline]

I did that with 3DS games a few years ago. Mainly just did it in 2013. In 2014 when I got a PS4 I knew I wasn't going to do it with PS4 games so I stopped.

I think I opened 3 just to trade them in at GameStop but a lot are still sealed. I don't know what I'm doing with them.

[oldgamerz]

Not me, the longest game I had sealed was about a year, then I opened it, it was Megaman X Collection for the PlayStation 2, Sometimes if you get a resealed game the game is not in the case, because the seller don't think some people will notice. My copy was factory sealed and yes it was in the case.

However the case may be I have 2 brand new controllers still sealed that I have gotten new, I don't plan on opening them, unless I need them for something.

I suppose some people will scalp sealed games, than sell them when they go up in value but, sometimes things go down in value over time instead. Lifes too short for buying things you are never going to use in my opinion. Nobody knows what the future holds for any of us.

[wartoy]

I recently bought a digital release of Brigandine for the Switch (early release) then picked up the special edition with no need to open it unless I somehow lose my digital copy so yes. And I did buy Mario 3d all stars also but haven't played it yet.

[Cartagia]

Yes, but it is pretty rare. I have a copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 that had the slipcover autographed by pretty much the whole voice cast.  That is staying on the shelf.  My LRG copy of Celeste was purchased with an LRG gift card after I had already bought the digital copy of the game.  And I got a copy of the Dark Souls Trilogy release because I love that series, but already had copied of each game.  I think that is all?  So 3 out of around 1K titles seems reasonable to me.

[sworddude]

3d all stars doesn't seem to rare though

it sold over 8 million copies on switch and is still widely available in stores physical

I don't think it will be a pricy game later on. Sure it will have some value like most nintendo games but It's not going to be pricy I highly doubt it. let alone that sealed price differences of modern era games will probably be way less, considering how tons of people purposely keep them games sealed these days. it isn't a rarity like it was in the past in wich brand new games are actually hard to find usually forgotten in a closet a mistake to leave unopened and thus worth multiple times more. Sealed might have almost identical value to mint excellent used copies with more modern stuff

If where talking switch releases that might have nice value xenoblade 2 for example or it's physical DLC but those actually have less sales.



On topic

I never go out of my way to buy a game sealed to never play it.

I do however occasionally come across sealed games on the cheap for older consoles. Like say castlevania order of eclessia ds have it both used and factory sealed. I'm a fan of the series so I'll also keep the sealed copy since I have a used copy anyway. If I only where to have the game factory sealed I'll just wait till i ever score a used copy. or if I ever felt the need to play the game within a reasonable amount of time, sell the factory sealed copy to buy an excellent condition used copy.

Mostly an after thought though, I would never pay good money for sealed stuff. I'd rather have a used copy in excellent shape I'm not a factory sealed game collector.

[emporerdragon]

I have sealed games, but that's more just because they are in the all-consuming backlog. I do want to play them, eventually. But how many years it will take for that eventually to hit, I have no idea.

I do have some games that will stay sealed though, more because either I managed to get a digital version for dirt cheap (or it's accessible on Game Pass), or I got a good enough deal on it and/or wasn't expecting to get a sealed copy. Best example of the later is my sealed copy of Jet Force Gemini for the N64; I bought a "used - acceptable" listing from amazon's Warehouse deals for 5 bucks, and so was quite surprised when a sealed version came in the mail.

[bikingjahuty]

Yep. I own 6 copies of Shenmue 3. One is open.

[pikkis95]

Yes, lots of times

[Cartagia]

3d all stars doesn't seem to rare though

it sold over 8 million copies on switch and is still widely available in stores physical

I don't think it will be a pricy game later on. Sure it will have some value like most nintendo games but It's not going to be pricy I highly doubt it. let alone that sealed price differences of modern era games will probably be way less, considering how tons of people purposely keep them games sealed these days. it isn't a rarity like it was in the past in wich brand new games are actually hard to find usually forgotten in a closet a mistake to leave unopened and thus worth multiple times more. Sealed might have almost identical value to mint excellent used copies with more modern stuff

That 8 million does not differentiate between physical and digital copies, and based on modern ratios, we are probably looking at only about 4 million physical copies out in the wild.  And yes, there are still physical copies in stores - because we haven't reached the March 31 shut off date for it yet.  It's going to see price spikes if for no other reason than the artificially limited production lifecycle.  It may not triple in value, but it's going to be over MSRP sooner rather than later.

[sworddude]

3d all stars doesn't seem to rare though

it sold over 8 million copies on switch and is still widely available in stores physical

I don't think it will be a pricy game later on. Sure it will have some value like most nintendo games but It's not going to be pricy I highly doubt it. let alone that sealed price differences of modern era games will probably be way less, considering how tons of people purposely keep them games sealed these days. it isn't a rarity like it was in the past in wich brand new games are actually hard to find usually forgotten in a closet a mistake to leave unopened and thus worth multiple times more. Sealed might have almost identical value to mint excellent used copies with more modern stuff

That 8 million does not differentiate between physical and digital copies, and based on modern ratios, we are probably looking at only about 4 million physical copies out in the wild.  And yes, there are still physical copies in stores - because we haven't reached the March 31 shut off date for it yet.  It's going to see price spikes if for no other reason than the artificially limited production lifecycle.  It may not triple in value, but it's going to be over MSRP sooner rather than later.

we'll see only time will tell