Future Expensive Games

[lisalover1]

What games of this generation or the previous generation do you think will become rare titles later on? I can think of quite a few for the DS. Game and Watch Collection, The DS Web Browser, Electroplankton, and the recently-announced DS port of Intellivision Lives will apparently only be sold online, so I'm keeping an eye on that, too.

[Dylan]

Metroid Prime Trilogy is the first one that comes to mind. Also, I think some of the extravagant collector's editions of games are going to start selling for good amounts in the future.

[dlmvii]

The Dragon Quest V port to the DS seems to have been in fairly short supply - prices for it on the second hand market already typically fetch higher than retail

[YoshiEgg25]

DS: The ones you mentioned, plus Game and Watch Collection 2 (Club Nintendo exclusive) and LOL: Never Party Alone (another online-only title).

Wii: Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (especially with the arcade stick). I could also see Zack and Wiki being a high price game in the future.

PS3/Xbox 360: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (when it comes out). Every MvC game has been very high on all the rare games list here.

[Flake]

PS3/Xbox 360: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (when it comes out). Every MvC game has been very high on all the rare games list here.

Not necessarily. The Dreamcast versions of both MvC and MvC2 are quite affordable. The PS2 / Xbox versions of MvC2 were only rare because they had a limited print run before Capcom lost their license to the Marvel properties.

As far as I know, the license has been renewed fairly recently so MvC3 should have a pretty significant print run.

[final fight cd]

i don't think there will be "rare" titles in the sense that the game is actually hard to find. i also don't think we will be seeing current gen games selling for $200+ in the future.

now limited editions might be a different story.

hasn't comic book collecting and baseball card collecting really dropped? who knows, by the time the future gets here "collecting" video games might not be the thing to do.

ps the world is ending in 2011 anyways.

[Luke]

i don't think there will be "rare" titles in the sense that the game is actually hard to find. i also don't think we will be seeing current gen games selling for $200+ in the future.

now limited editions might be a different story.

hasn't comic book collecting and baseball card collecting really dropped? who knows, by the time the future gets here "collecting" video games might not be the thing to do.

ps the world is ending in 2011 anyways.

Values on rare items are almost always cyclical.

It would be something else if smb/duck hunt started to sell for over .50usd in the future.

[GigaPepsiMan]

I don't there are many games this gen that would be considered rare in the future, I think the internet is to thanks for that.

[Betamax001]

I think the PS2 version of Sakura Wars that came out a couple months ago will be rare in the future.

[NSBAceAttorney]

Re: Chain of Memories comes to mind.
Any PS2 Shin Megami Tensei game.
Ico
Eternal Poison
Any PS2 exclusives released from here out.

I can see the PSP being a haven for rare and expensive games in the future.