Retro game collecting has been a lot of fun over the last few years as I work to track down GameCube games, but over the last year it’s been getting harder and harder to find games at good prices. A zoomed out look at the market over the last year shows just how crazy prices are really getting.
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I made the mistake of giving someone my copy of Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, and Radiant Dawn before I moved out of state. I only meant to give away my Wii games. When I went to try and rebuy it on eBay a year later, it’s was over $100. This was way back in 2014. Insane.
Yeeaah gotten into retro gaming recently(grew up with ps2 and n64) and christ some ps2 games are expensive. Mario 64 and DK64 are 50-60 dollars for just the games.
I saw Earthbound in box, in a store for $1000 (incredibly stupid price). So, I went and bought a boxed copy of Mother 2 (same game) for $50. I also managed to get every mario game for the SFC for less than $60, which is what some horrible sellers are trying to sell just one of the games for that price. Retro sellers are fucking stupid.
Wow that's funny, right at the end of last year I happened upon a Wii and a small lot of games for a good deal so I bought it, and after acquiring a GameCube controller from a pawn shop I paid $25 for Star Fox adventures like 4 months ago
The only GameCube games I still own are melee, Pokémon colosseum, paper Mario the thousand year door, dragon ball z budokai 2, and STAR FOX ADVENTURES!!!
I remember getting silent hill 2 and 3 for 30 each on ps2 back in 2017 and now they are worth double
Recently got Nier, Folklore and eternal sonata for 15 bucks each. Those were the 3 mains ones I wanted.
dude a wii plus controller is $80 and is sold out everywhere. I don't understand…
Ya'll thought the GameCube market's been skyrocketing? Ya'll don't wanna see the Dreamcast market right now, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Capcom games for the system.
Excess cash chasing finite goods. At least 20% of the world's money supply was printed this past year: unless our government's spending habits change dramatically, I think we can count on the price of collectibles and other inflation-indexed assets to remain high for a good while.
The gameboy player doubled in price since last year. Used to be 120-130 complete and now its 220-300ish complete. Also good luck finding a disc.
I wish I could go back to the days where I would go to the thrift store and find a complete GameCube for like 30 bucks
It is getting bad, Im regretting selling 3 walmart containers of stuff 10 years ago. I thought I could buy it back later. I didn't think it would get THIS big.
Cool video tech talk lol
I just….. I just can't fathom that the 2ds xl + 3ds line has been discontinued…… AND PRICES ARE NUTS FOR POOR QUALITY ONES!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly Im still on the hunt
For everyone here in the comments making the "game preservation" argument this has nothing to do with preservation. This is just a collecting hobby. If you care about game preservation (which honestly I don't) it should be easily available to everyone. Best would be digitally through bc.
Paying over 400 bucks for a game is NOT game preservation!
We've got this problem for a last 10+ years in Finland.
suikoden 2 is like 13k on ebay now
thing is, most of the good ps3 games are for ps4 either physically or digitally, therefore playable on ps5, so no need to get them. i sold my ps3 assasins creed collection and regot them on ps4. some ps3 games wont be rereleased tho, so there good to get.
I get what you’re saying with buying ps3 over Xbox 360 because of game pass. But personally I’m much more likely to get Xbox 360 over ps3 games because of Xbox one backwards compatibility. But I guess that’s just non-exclusives
I'm sitting on my sealed (factory) sealed copy of Gitarooman on PS2.
There's an ebayer who refurbs them and reseals them (naughty, if you ask me) but mine is factory sealed.
I can't find it anywhere for less that £135GBP
I have been collecting First Party Games since 2012 but I agree as far as the UK PAL Variants these games are beyond reasonable prices back then but now it could be considered impossible to justify collecting games priced above £70 a pop especially for those obscure first party Nintendo games like Kirby Air Ride, Chibi Robo, Four Swords Adventures and Twilight Princess itself has held it's value despite a hd rerelease. For anyone just wanting to just play these games I would recommend picking up a Wii or Wii U, Letterbox exploit your system or in the Wii U's case it can be done through the Web Browser and a SD Card. And just find iso files for games you want people have made entire archives for N64,Wii,Wii U even Wiiware. In my experience playing gamecube games via Nintendont runs just as well as a real disc plus you don't need a gamecube memory card when using Nintendont.
People gotta spend their Joe Bucks.
At this point, if you're looking to just play games on official hardware, get either an Everdrive or an optical emulator for the consoles you want to play with. I know there's the whole ROM debate, but developers aren't making money on games being sold on eBay.
My movers I hired stole all my gamecube games and memory cards from my collection, a lot of those games cost over $100 now, when I paid $20 for them when the gamecube was the newest console. Needless to say, I'm pretty pissed.
I started collecting for n64, but I'm happy with what I have so far, managed to get some of the better titles, imo. But the prices have doubled since last year! Price charting is like the bare minimum you'll be lucky to find.
The PS3 and the Vita are going to be highly sought after.
Im glad I completed my PS3 collection last year, because some of the prices currently are insane! I had many contacts at GameStop, and was able to get about 80% of the full collection from them through deals like 4/$10 and 4/$20. I got Painkiller from them for $8.49 (and still have the receipt to show all the non believers). I would spend hours sometimes, looking on their site for games, coordinating which games I would need, look them up on store locater, call that store to confirm if it was CIB, text a friend at gamestop and they'd call up that store and ship the game to my home store. Then they would hold them until one of the 4/$10 or 4/$20 sales so I could save the most money.
I’ve noticed this problem too, I’m 12 and I’ve always wanted to play Melee for the GameCube because I always hear that it’s a fantastic game but when you look at the prices, yeah they are out of control. This is a huge problem because how will kids from future generations be able to play awesome games like Melee when they’re super overpriced
Lol speaking of collections in 2009 my house was burglarized when I was gone. I had house insurance on my game collection the 60 and 70 dollar new games the insurance company was depreciating the value. When they hit my old games they hated me some were $800 usd to replace. Which was ironic that the games I had lovingly kept for years was worth more lol. Pictures of me in front of my collections was undeniable physical proof that I owned them because every title was visible.
So yes even the crappy games can become valuable over time.
I think at some point the WiiU is gonna blow up in price. Lots of obscure gems, especially Fatal Frame which will effectively be impossible to obtain once the eShop closes. Devil's Third too.
Application that's what you get when you have a world economy people will start price gouging taking advantage of our capitalist system. You could just get a raspberry pi and steal the 🏦.
Paper m ario went from 80 to almost 120 in less than a month wtf!!! What's going on in the market.
It's wild man I am so glad I kept my stuff in tact. GameCube was ahead of its time for sure
It wouldn't have been so bad for me if my city would quit putting "safe injection sites" in front of things like games stores. My main location for retro games closed because of that shite.
Well money is worthless today so lets go sheeps keep buying on the internet dont use cash ect we are fucked because people are stupid 🙁 damn son
Ok lol its a complete copie thats normal
I was wanting to buy a super nintendo (new style smaller version) and buy all the games I grew up with but it's just too expensive.
This explains a lot. A few weeks ago all my broken/Need repair GameCube consoles were solve for $35 each on ebay. The disc wouldn't spin so it could be something dirty or change motor.
Got a box of 100 brand new GameBoy light Magnifiers for $2 total at a yard sale a few years ago. Pretty much sold them all for $25 each in the last month. So probably due to this covid and stimulus check situation, retro games and accessories are selling.
After playing with that PS2 exploit that came out last year it made me realize why I loved my GameCube so much more
Ps3 Backward compatible system getting pricey
Hey I still have Def Jam Fight for New York on my old game cube didn't know the price went up so much! I love that game
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I mean, it's all your fault guys.
If yall weren't buying at these prices, they wouldn't be selling.