>>9936393
>Its not exactly what you think.
Yeah, while I do think there was a trickle down speculation/hype effect on other games, a crash in the graded sealed US game market probably won't have a huge impact on the "normal" collector markets. Non-graded sealed games, prototypes, and super mint complete games (basically things which could've attracted the WATA crowd) might go back down a bit. Loose carts, B and below condition complete games, and non-US releases will probably be unaffected since a lot of those items weren't quite as attractive to investors in the first place and the hype spillover damage to those markets has probably been fully internalized by regular gamers and collectors at this point. That said, the lesser investor bandwagoners might be dissuaded from trying to invest in non-sealed games after seeing prices collapse on some of the graded sealed games, which could prevent future spikes and perhaps slow the overall upward price trend.
tl;dr anything that drives down game prices anywhere is good, but some fat fucks theoretically losing several grand on their game investments probably won't have much of an immediate impact on prices in the broader market; at best it might cool a little of the profit-focused hype and stall the Johnny-come-lately investors from driving up other game markets