/vr/ - Retro Games

Arguably the bubble already did "pop" around 2016. Many console libraries' averages either dropped significantly, slowly bled out, or stabilized around that time. It was only due to the artificial pressure of the covid lockdown shit that caused everything to kick into high gear. But even then, and this may just be anecdotal, but retro games don't seem to be as "cool" in the general zeitgeist as they were in the mid 2010s. Hell, just look at how AVGN was the most popular shit ever and now he's a burnt out husk shilling dollar shave club adverts, to say nothing of all the AVGN clones that havecompletely faded now.

IDK, it just doesn't seem to be a big thing anymore. I think the exorbinate prices are purely from speculators rather than anyone who actually cares about collecting old games.