/vr/ - Retro Games

>>413847

Nono, that's not the issue.

Earthbound flew under many, many people's radars, sure. But here's the thing.

Many people came to learn of the series one way (word of mouth) or another (smash bros.) over the years. It's still relatively unknown in the real world though, go ahead ask anybody you know that doesn't spend all day on 4chan or any other website with a sizable community of video game players if they know anything about earthbound other than that ness came from it. The general kind of person that knows about earthbound is the general kind of person who knows about emulation.

There simply aren't a lot of people out in the wild who want to play earthbound and don't know emulation is an option. For the few that fit that market, I can almost guarantee you 0 of them fit that mold, own an SNES that still functions, and are willing to pay even the absolute low end of $75 or so for a copy.

I don't like to just instantly assume everyone who likes something I don't is a retard or a hipster, but unless somebody is a collector there's really little to no reason for them to go out of their way to pay exorborant prices for a copy of earthbound, unless they want to send a message to their peers about how "obscure" their tastes are.