why the FUCK is everything so expensive now

[Anonymous No.10613370]

I'm looking at BROKEN consoles, and sellers on ebay are asking $40 for junk gameboy pockets with trashed shells and burnt screens. That's $5-10 less than a working one. What the fuck happened?

[Anonymous No.10613373]

>>10613370
Hoarders/resellers/scalpers

[Anonymous No.10613389]

>>10613370
in the past normal people would buy old videogames to just play them. now all those people moved on to emulation and the only ones left are collectors/hoarders which would massively distort the pricing.

[Anonymous No.10613430]

>>10613370
It's simple, supply and demand, if people know a thing they have can be bought for a high amount of money, even if it seems to expensive, they still do it, because why wouldn't they? As long as the target market for a product buys it, because the demand's larger than the supply, the people who want to buy this stuff are at the mercy of sellers, no real way around it, the hobby's gotten too big.

I just stick to emulation nowadays, sold up all of my retro stuff years ago, still have a PS4 sitting in my living room in case I decide to play anything I find interesting which just so happens to be new.

I know the hardware itself is part of the hobby, I love it as much as anyone else, but it's too much, while ROMs, RetroArch and CRT shaders are all free, all I pay for is retro styled controllers now.

[Anonymous No.10613438]

drug dealers realised nerds hobbies can be used for money laundering and its better than fine art.
Im sorry.

[Anonymous No.10613461]

>buy """""broken"""""" ds
>works fine
why do they do it bros

[Anonymous No.10613527]

>>10613389
>IT'S THE COLLECTORS REEEEEEE
Collectors are the ones these things belong to. The reason they're overpriced is speculatortards and cryptotards chasing the next manchild stock. They saw the popularity of retro games explode during covid and now they just buy shit for the sole purpose of selling at a profit.

[Anonymous No.10613602]

>>10613370
Out of touch millennials with disposable income buying shit they'll never need or use, which drives the price of anything related to video games up.

[Anonymous No.10613624]

who cares about plastic garbage

>>>/toy/
>>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.10613694]

>>10613370
>What the fuck happened?
Retarded bandwagonning babies kept asking "why the FUCK is everything so expensive now". Also youtube.

[Anonymous No.10613705]

>>10613527
No,it belongs to people who would actually play them.

[Anonymous No.10613713]

>>10613705
What do you think you do in order to play them, retard, mash them into a blender and drink the plastic paste it to rip the ROM directly into your brain? You fucking collect the games and then you play them.

[Anonymous No.10613719]

>>10613602
No it's like I said: People buy them for the sole purpose of treating them as stocks. They try to buy low and sell high, and sometimes throw the grading scam into the mix. When did this boogeyman of evil "collector millenials buying old games for no reason" come from? Sounds like something that would literally be started by the speculator retards.

[Anonymous No.10613720]

>>10613713
A good portion of collectors are collectors before they are gamer,i had like 50 to a 100 games before but i didnt consider myself a collectors,i was constantly selling and buying some other games and nowadays i switched to ode and hard drives and still play games,so no you dont need to collect to play games.

[Anonymous No.10613843]

>>10613370
Tard tax.

[Anonymous No.10613918]

millennial manchildren thinking buying old toys are investments

[Anonymous No.10613923]

>>10613430
This is what I do. I still own all of my retro hardware but I never use it anymore since emulating is just easier + I have access to every retro console this way.

>>10613719
It's a little of both it seems. The major distributors are supported by the younger crowd who gullibly choose to collect on original hardware rather than just emulating or buying a modern compilation. This is why I suggest that if somebody wants to own a game physically, they should go with the latter.

There is no reason to spend upwards of $100 on a single retro game when you can find it for cheaper on a regular modern console or Steam while supporting the actual developers. Emulation is obviously the best option but some people are weird about that for whatever reason

[Anonymous No.10614026]

>>10613370
Cuz America is like India and China now and hates poor people more than ever

It used to not suck because it was easier to get buy but I guess greedy politicians ruined it

You can get crappier versions of everything, but not like before where the good stuff was just reasonably priced

[Anonymous No.10614029]

>>10614026
I should say they dislike the middle class now more than ever since they're taking less vacations and buying less too

[Anonymous No.10614087]

Fuck off, wojak posting retard.

[Anonymous No.10614120]

>>10613370
This is retard posting. Retro gaming cost exactly what it should to anyone who wants to get into it. There are so many options. OP is a retard.

[Anonymous No.10614191]

>>10613370
Most broken video games consoles can be repaired with a toothbrush and rubbing alcohol. And no matter how filthy it is, the Chinese will sell you a brand new shell for it. In fact, I would genuinely estimate that 90% of purchased Gameboys get their shells tossed and replaced by zoomers and the general public. Even if the system needs to be recapped, someone can buy it and repair it easily, a common skill for people who collect this stuff. If the screen is burnt, you can toss in a "modern" cheapo ips panel or replace the burnt reflector

[Anonymous No.10614270]

>>10613370
Yeah I get it. I decided that I'm done collecting this year. I have pretty much everything I want and even that has become too much. I have enough games to last me the rest of my life, I don't need to buy anything else.

[Anonymous No.10614280]

>>10613705
the people who hoard this shit absolutely do not play these games. 500 dollars for literally any 5th gen game that isnt scratched to hell that only reads 10% of the time. you'd be stupid to spend that sort of money and then actually use it like you would back then.

[Anonymous No.10614297]

>>10614029
Globohomo gonna kill us all

[Anonymous No.10614303]

>>10613370
Just emulate, bro.

Wait, are you one of those "real gamers", who "don't cheat", and only "use real hardware" ?

Ahahahahahah

[Anonymous No.10614308]

>>10613370
Just play on emulators, there's no need to hoard plastic.

[Anonymous No.10614319]

if you were really into it for the right reasons, you'd already have everything you need.

[Anonymous No.10614390]

>>10613370
I've given up, even old computers are too expensive for the headache. 100$ on a sandy bridge system is crazy, now I'm going to start buying everything new and emulating old stuff if possible.

[Anonymous No.10614403]

>>10614297
What if they're listening? Aren't you afraid of losing your job and family?

[Anonymous No.10614469]

>>10614191
>I would genuinely estimate that 90% of purchased Gameboys get their shells tossed and replaced by zoomers and the general public
I’d doubt that. The quality of repro shells is, generally, abysmal. Bought a few ds shells for some rekt ds lites I got and god damn they are so fucking bad.

[Anonymous No.10614485]

>>10614469
Repro shells are only trustworthy if it's like Commodore guys who do it as a labor of love and not a quick buck like a random-ass Chinese factory. I agree a lot of them are made of very cheesy brittle plastic much lower quality than the original was. You would be better just getting a 3D printer and making your own, you could probably do a better job.

re: Gameboy shells. The original ones were made of pretty heavy-gauge plastic because Nintendo fully expected and planned for kids dropping them on hard surfaces. I doubt those Chinese ones are made as well.

[Anonymous No.10614490]

Probably because everyone watched the same youtube video as you and had the idea they'd "just" buy a broken gameboy and fix it you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.10614491]

Sega stuff isn't that bad as far as price but the Nintendo tax...I got my NES and SNES in Bush's first term when game stores were selling them for $20 so...

[Anonymous No.10614497]

who fucking cares about stupid plastic garbage

>>>/toy/
>>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.10614765]

>>10614497
you already posted this

[Anonymous No.10614830]

>>10614469
It depends on the console. Anything built like a toy made of nintendium is good to replace with Chinese nintendium. My n3ds replacement shell is fucking garbage. But Gameboy mods are probably the highest volume market in retro. Someone will sell a Gameboy that's broken, someone will buy it and fix it in 10 minutes, put a new shell and screen on it, wether it needed replacing or not, and sell it for over a hundred bucks

[Anonymous No.10614840]

You can't emulate hardware.

[Anonymous No.10614852]

>>10613370
>mcChickens are expensive now
yes hello, hi, stop printing unlimited money
exercise fiscal responsibility
when the federal reserve overprints currency
it reduces spending power
this also fucks over non-americans as well

taxation is theft
there are NO shortcuts
you want a war? sell bonds
i hate the corrupt faggots in washington so much

[Anonymous No.10614860]

>>10613370
Inflation. The $200 the Dreamcast sold for is like $400 today.

[Anonymous No.10614914]

They were cheap 20 years ago, because 20 years ago they were crappy 1 or 2 gen behind consoles that people were unloading in mass, and the only people buying them were the poorfags who couldn't afford a PS2/1 and fished the dollar bin for carts for their SNES or Genesis.

What happened since then is that every loser in his 30s with disposable income is trying to get back their childhood memory, or build a collection they dreamed of as a child, or they are some youtube streamers who get $100 tips when showing off the latest shelf warmer they bought off of ebay. Consequently the demand is up, and because this is old shit that is not produced any longer, the supply is dwindling. Plus add in inflation, the dollar lost almost a third of its value since the 90s.

If you want cheap shit, right now you should look at PS3s and Xbox 360s. They fall into the same category as a SNES in 2004: too old for anyone to consider them valuable, too new for it to be retro. You can get them at $10 for a broken and $40 for a working console, and you can buy discs for 2-3$. And once the kids who played them in 2010 start getting enough money to build collections, they'll be worth a lot more.

[Anonymous No.10614920]

>>10613373
And dont forget Millenials/Hipsters/Speculators/Influencers.

[Anonymous No.10614936]

>>10613370
Game Boys are the most collectible console ever and what is happening is the scraping of the bottom of the barrel.

[Anonymous No.10615274]

>>10614936

How much demand will there be for 3DS systems in 5-10 years?

[Anonymous No.10615281]

>>10614920
>>10613373
drop in the bucket compared to overprinting money
i dont know why normies cannot understand this

hello
2\3 of all United states cash was printed less than 3 years ago?
hello that causes the dollar to be worthless as fucking shit
HEDGE YOUR BETS
invest now faggots

[Anonymous No.10615774]

>>10615274
High. At least, that’s my guess. Emulation of portables is never great, and that goes double for a 3DS. 2 screens, 3d, and touch? Plus, all the variations and limited editions make it a prime console to increase in value. Not to mention the IPS bullshit. You should have picked up a few units years ago, but now isn’t a terrible time either.

Personally, I want to grab a Solgaleo/Lunala new 3ds xl just cause I don’t have a new 3ds xl and I like the design. Maybe I’ll get a 2ds too just to complete the collection.

[Anonymous No.10615810]

>>10613720
>A good portion of collectors are collectors before they are gamer
Based on what?

>so no you dont need to collect to play games.
That's not what's being said. Let go of your preconceived nonsense and try to actually read what you're responding to. There are a million ways to play games, you just have to force yourself to believe in a divide between "people who enjoy collecting old games" and "people who play old games" so you have an excuse to demonize the former.

[Anonymous No.10615813]

>>10613923
>There is no reason to spend
You're calling other people zoomers and then obsessing over prices and how much other people spend on things.

>while supporting the actual developers
lol
lmao
You're supporting publishers. The "actual developers" of all these old games getting remasters and collections released have long since left their respective companies or retired completely. All you're doing is putting money in the pockets of the companies that own the rights to the names.

[Anonymous No.10616334]

>>10615810
>to demonize the former
I have plenty of reasons to demonize collectings but it mostly comes down to collecting being a hylic-tier behavior.

[Anonymous No.10617121]

>>10615281
Has nothing to do with that, prices in this market have increased beyond just inflation.