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>except working game consoles from old generations to be about $40 each loose
>they aren't anymore
What went wrong?

>> No.8335307

>>8335304
Normalfag bandwagonners, investors, and zoomers happened.

>> No.8335326

>he didn't buy something when interest was low and it was cheaper
>now he has decided to buy, yet he "excepts" the prices to be as low as they were when thing wasn't popular
I can tell you're a leaf. My guess, same leaf / janny who posts the Sega System and FFVII threads.

>> No.8335348

>>8335304
they're in that timeframe in which people growing up with them are flush with money and want to nostalgia.

wait 10-15 years.

>> No.8335354

>>8335304
what is it specifically that you're complaining (like a woman) about? Prices went up. Emulate or pay up.

>> No.8335359

>>8335348
Yeah same with Babe Ruth rookie cards. They totally cratered in value after a little while.

>> No.8335361

>>8335304
If you're only realizing this now, you're most likely part of the problem. You didn't really care for it before but now you must follow the trend.

>> No.8335376
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>>8335348
So what you're saying is that I should focus on stocking up on 7th gen memorabilia and early gaming laptops for when early zoomers get incomes?

>> No.8335381

>>8335376
Im already doing that

>> No.8335397

>>8335381
The price of bc PS3s is already going up pretty hard, I should stock up on broken ones while people are somehow momentarily too stupid to realize the proper fix is via the tokin caps (that's old news but people still don't know for some reason).
I should also buy the literal bulk lots of PS3 and 360 games out there while no one is looking and pick up some of the cooler limited 360 consoles if I see them. Maybe even some PSP stuff and rarer non-pokemon DS games.

>> No.8335398

>>8335397
Wii motes, games and the console are so common here in Moortugal that i can get one, with games, cables and a mote for 30 euros in a fair, OR LESS.

>> No.8336236

Just about everything goes through this cycle: it's modern, then it's obsolete, and now it's classic. For retro games, this was mostly in the late 90s to the early 2010s, and it would never last, this was always just a window of opportunity.

Be glad that retro games have options such as emulation and flashcarts, something you can't do with other collectibles like cars and guns.

>>8335307
Prospectors are an anomaly and aren't going to last. The comics prospecting bubble burst, and so will this one.

>>8335376
Some of it may be worth something if it's in decent condition, and you have the space and patience to store it properly. But even then, a lot of the high values you see now are artificially inflated, a mint sealed copy of SM64 isn't even $200 in normal circumstances, you're never going to actually sell it for $1 200 000, because those are pretend sales, the reality is that you'll store a Wii for 20 years and you're most likely going to make a profit of $50 for your troubles.

>> No.8336724

>>8336236
I'm not into speculative things like boxed whatevers, more getting things that are relatively rare now wh8le they're still obtainably priced so I can enjoy them into the future before they become unobtanium.

>> No.8336728

>>8335348
>bro just wait a decade to play games
lmao what? unless you're a collector fag WHO DOESN'T play games. why would someone wait a decade to play a game?

>> No.8336757

It feels hard to say this collecting bubble feels disgenuine since people will just say you don't like games. But it really felt like people used to accept that retro stuff was not that valuable outside of scarce stuff, and then this just changed in a flash.

>> No.8336902

>>8336757
Part of it is people just realizing that a lot of this stuff actually had real value after all, and didn't just stop being good because it wasn't top of the line anymore, while another part of it is the ongoing prospector bubble. We'll probably get out of the prospector bubble one way or another, because these things can't sustain, so a lot of the fucking retarded pricing will vanish when it does, but I don't think we'll ever go back to bins of loose NES cartridges with $0.50 stickers on them.

>> No.8336910

Man I'm happy I learned Japanese, their prices for retro are so much better it's crazy

>> No.8336938

>>8336757
It seems to me to be a scam as well. There are many ways to pirate games depending on their generation so unless you care about it being "authentic" it's usually fine.

>> No.8336948

>>8336902
Yeah it's both a blessing and a curse. Prices going up sucks but on a positive note it means at minimum this stuff's not getting trashed, and at best it's going to someone who will play it and care for it. Nothing is wrong with collecting but I do want people to actually play what they buy, having stuff go to some dude who only wants everything for completion's sake sucks for anyone who both wants and will play that game in particular. You know what I mean?

It's the difference between treating it like some fancy expensive trinket versus appreciating it as an actual game that's still good even now

>> No.8336979

>>8336910
good advice, smash bros n64 is like $100 in english and like $5 for japanese version on ebay

>> No.8337001

>>8336979
A few jap N64 carts have English and Japanese language in the rom files, you can sometime turn them on with a gameshark. Jap Biohazard 2 does as an example, I think the zelda games do as well.

>> No.8337016

>>8335376
Yes. You can still get in on 6th gen too unless you want the heavy hitters. You can buy killer 6th gen games for $5, especially on 360

>> No.8337035

>>8335304
I wish more Kinomania vids were subtitled

>> No.8337039

>>8336728
Because there are more games than you could conceivably play in a lifetime?

If you’re going to buy a game for $60+ just buy a new game and support a dev. Preferably in some niche dying genre so it can hold out a while longer

>> No.8337064

>>8337039
Why would I want to support a dev, most modern games are politicised garbage.

>> No.8337094

>>8335304
>OP wants thing
>checks for thing online
>finds out lots of other people also want thing
>WTF why does everyone want thing I want? Only I should want thing.
Many such cases

>> No.8338356

>>8335304
bandwagoning and the great 80s nostalgia cash-in of 2016-2018 happened. Now since 80s nostalgia is cringe we've seen an uptick in 90s and 00s nostalgia and it's the reason why gamecube games cost as much as a new game or more