To this I say, and I say it warm heartily, see just about any Saturn game. Lots of mediocrity that sells for an insane price. Also, see Action 52 =D
Does shovelware count? I'm sure we'll get more of those before the Wii is totally dead.
I was thinking no shovel ware.
Well in my defense my parents are antique dealers, so I grew up in the whole culture revolving around things going up in value with age.
Not jumping on anybody or anything else - but I don't think the current and future generations of gaming will ever have the sought after collectibility of the older games.
Your thinking waaaay too short term. I thought the same about the GC, and look at its popularity now. (Increasing by the way)
Doesn't have to be a $59.99 game at all, I have done it once or twice myself already, not on this admittedly, but it even worked on a $5 game that I just returned at another store (wanted to use the credit on some used games I was getting at that store). But anyway, it works on ANY new game, the $59.99 game for $9.99 is just a suggestion really, the real deal with the promo, is "Trade two of these games and buy a new game, and get bumped up to $50 credit for them" BEFORE PUR!!! You DO get your extra 10% ONTOP of the $50, so if the games are each 13 base, you end up getting $52.60 from the two! The rest of the credit will end upon a giftcard/PUR Card if you end up with extra, but the credit will be put towards the new game before anything else.
I've done that a couple times as well LOL. It's set me off a few times seeing people refer to games as "investments".
No, you are right, it's stupid as hell. Games are meant to be played; it pisses me off when someone buys games on sale/cheap to sit on a shelf for years because there's someone else who, had they gotten the game, would actually play and enjoy it.
. While we are on the topic of valuable collectibles, I am kicking myself for missing out on the Larfleeze Blackest Night bust. I've found that, with a few years patience, it's easy to get those busts at under half the original price, but holy hell did Larfleeze sell out quick. I can barely find a bust on sale for under $200, let alone the $30 I was hoping to pay for it :*(. I hate El Hoardo as much as the next guy, but damn, anybody selling those busts now can make a killing that even puts these Xenoblade Chronicle hoarders to shame. Same with the Rorschace bust, Watchmen is my favorite movie ever and while every other bust from that set can be found for under $20, Rorschace's has held it's value extremely well. Since it hardly seems worth buying any of them without Rorschace, I missed out there too :*( Who knew glorified paperweights would be so valuable?While collecting everything and expecting them to go up is stupid, there are ways to see if a game has a good chance of going up in value. Let's take Xenoblade as an example. This was a niche game sold at the end of a dead console's lifespan at only 1 retail chain. Anyone could have seen that the value would have gone up. I imagine that in a few years a sealed U.S. copy could be worth a good amount. I also could see a sealed copy of Too Human going up in price also. Whether how much they increase is worth it is another story.
Just about any Saturn game?! Yikes! I was one of the suckers that bought the Saturn at the surprise launch, and stuck with it until the end. My jaw would probably drop at the prices some people are willing to pay for a lot of those pixelated messes.
I didn't even know of the game, since I don't keep up with the Wii news, so it was gone before I had a chance. I have a copy now, but not sealed and mint like I would have liked to have.
There was a point when Toys R Us had Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shining Force III on clearance for $20. And a point when Best Buy had more copies of Earthbound than they could get rid of for $20. Like, literally, there were walls of Earthbound in Best Buys. Those boxes were huge, the game was weird, and they just weren't moving, despite Nintendo's attempts to sell the hell out of it via Nintendo Power.
If the pipe dream comes true, then Rodea the Sky Soldier would probably be the last Wii exclusive (well, I guess not technically exclusive since it is supposedly coming for the 3DS too). Chances are that PT is going to claim that title though, as at this point it would be better to transfer the work to the Wii U if it ever came out stateside.
That's true but it's all about judging market conditions. Like I said I bought Xenoblade new for $35 a week after release. I f I had been smart I would have bought several copies sat on them for a couple of months and then flipped them for $120 - $150. This would have been a rather low risk investment and could have net me a nice return with minimal work.
I guess people just have more money to spend than me. I could never justify spending $100 on a single game; hell, I can barely justify $60 for a game unless it's something I've just got to have. Aside from the Skyward Sword collector's edition I don't think I've ever paid over $60 for a game, if any game I want is too expensive I just end up playing something else.
No, I wouldn't "do the same". I was fairly certain Xenoblade Chronicles would be worth at least $100 within a year for sealed copies, and if anything I'm surprised it isn't worth more. But I still only chose to buy one for myself. Don't presume to speak on everyone's behalf, and read what I wrote above.
I have to disagree with this. Games made during the 16 bit era did not have the amount of pressings that games get today. Look at COD, how many copies of Modern Warfare do you think were pressed? Let's not forge the fact that a new line of filth is coming out of the 16 bit era. Carts being sac'd for "reproductions". People killing carts so they can sell a bootleg is making games harder to find. Look at Neo Geo MVS carts now, Ganryu for instance used to be a 30 dollar cart, but now due to it being sac'd for conversion to AES, the cart now commands 150-200 per cart. Law of supply and demand.
You'd be surprised how many dumbasses are out there "investing" in new comics/video games/toys/ect, thinking they have their kid's college fund or retirement all figured out. I'm not saying anyone on CAG is like this, but there are people out there who buy these things as actual investments, with the intent to resell it (always unopened of course) later at a massive profit. Hell, it seems like those people are the one's actually keeping the comic industry alive at the moment. Somebody who knows nothing about our entertainment industries hears that a book like Action Comics #1, Showcase #4, or Flash #123 sells for some ridiculous amount of money and thinks they can get in on it by simply buying every weekly title that comes out. The sad part is that, a lot of people like that trying to sell their old comics to my friend say they never even bothered to read any of them, they just bought them because they thought they'd be a good investment.
, they have, that was insanely fast. And to make it worse, all the stores in my area just went from "In Stock" to "Low Stock" or OoS. Now I REALLY hope Gaestop doesn't try to screw me with my site to store order, I figured if they did I'd at least have tonight to cancel/reorder from Amazon., I should've just bought some crappy filler item and purchased from Amazon.
Which is the point. I didn't stock up because I wasn't buying games with the intent on selling. It's like anything with business you make an investment in a product and then sell it for more than you paid for it. I'm not sure what you're trying getting at.
If I was willing to spend $30 on this game I could have bought it months ago. $20 was my price. I would've coughed up an extra $5 for some pins or something had I known the price would bounce back up that quickly, I just wasn't expecting that ON TOP of every Gaestop in my area going from "In Stock" to OoS today. I did get an email from them saying my order was ready for pickup several hours ago so we'll see what happens; hopefully this won't turn into another massive battle to get the goddamned game I already ordered.
I have ~50 games that are still sealed (out of a collection of 670+) but those will eventually be opened.
