Video Game "Look what I found"

[aaron]

Hey, the joys of technology.

I mean it's awesome that we can pull the phone out of the pocket and find out if some obscure game is worth a buy. There are a ton of games and it is impossible to know if we are always getting a good deal.

I guess the difference is in the last year there has been an influx of people like my friend (sarcasm) from the earlier post. He isn't the only one.

Basically, what they do is get whatever basket of games are going out and just go one by one through them. If it is a disc game they typically have that scanner thing attached to the phone. It just seems so mindless. It also had the effect of driving up prices on the items because the people at the store started noticing a gravitation towards certain items.

It is the only way you can explain a price raise in all things Nintendo, up to the N64, but the PS1/Sega/Gamecube stuff staying flat.

If someone has a business and they are acquiring games to sell, then I welcome the competition to track stuff down. It actually makes it more fun. But when someone just camps out and spends thirty minutes checking each title, it kind of just makes it all less fun.

PS1 and Gamecube stuff sells like gangbusters on Amazon.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I got a bunch of awesome free gaming and computer stuff from a guy on CL last year.

But I had the jump through hoops first to assure him I was not a reseller. He hated that shit.

A couple of weeks after I got the stuff he sent me an email asking for proof that I still had all of it.

Guy was awesome.

[Wispmage]

I'm not sure what I'm doing with most of it, but getting Demons Crest alone made it worth it.

I think I payed about 60 for the game itself, so congrats on the sweet find man. Such a great game.

[prfsnl_gmr]

...and sadly, I sometimes have to double check if I actually have a game in my collections.

There is no shame in that! Despite my disdain for price checkers...I do keep a detailed want list on my phone to make sure that I do not accidentally pick up games I already have in my collection.

[superyoda41]

Hey, the joys of technology.

I mean it's awesome that we can pull the phone out of the pocket and find out if some obscure game is worth a buy. There are a ton of games and it is impossible to know if we are always getting a good deal.

I guess the difference is in the last year there has been an influx of people like my friend (sarcasm) from the earlier post. He isn't the only one.

Basically, what they do is get whatever basket of games are going out and just go one by one through them. If it is a disc game they typically have that scanner thing attached to the phone. It just seems so mindless. It also had the effect of driving up prices on the items because the people at the store started noticing a gravitation towards certain items.

It is the only way you can explain a price raise in all things Nintendo, up to the N64, but the PS1/Sega/Gamecube stuff staying flat.

If someone has a business and they are acquiring games to sell, then I welcome the competition to track stuff down. It actually makes it more fun. But when someone just camps out and spends thirty minutes checking each title, it kind of just makes it all less fun.

PS1 and Gamecube stuff sells like gangbusters on Amazon.

Gamecube stuff sells well. The good stuff also gets snapped up quick. I think the prices have stayed flat at this particular store because only a select group of titles get picked up fast. The rest sit for weeks. So, you can walk in an find four copies of SpongeBob. The hardware also sits for extended periods of time even priced as low as $6.90 for a complete console. So, I think they basically figured it isn't that desirable.

That is probably relatively accurate. I mean, there are a select group of Gamecube titles that are in high demand, but there is a lot of kiddie stuff or cross-platform stuff too.

[aaron]

Hey, the joys of technology.

I mean it's awesome that we can pull the phone out of the pocket and find out if some obscure game is worth a buy. There are a ton of games and it is impossible to know if we are always getting a good deal.

I guess the difference is in the last year there has been an influx of people like my friend (sarcasm) from the earlier post. He isn't the only one.

Basically, what they do is get whatever basket of games are going out and just go one by one through them. If it is a disc game they typically have that scanner thing attached to the phone. It just seems so mindless. It also had the effect of driving up prices on the items because the people at the store started noticing a gravitation towards certain items.

It is the only way you can explain a price raise in all things Nintendo, up to the N64, but the PS1/Sega/Gamecube stuff staying flat.

If someone has a business and they are acquiring games to sell, then I welcome the competition to track stuff down. It actually makes it more fun. But when someone just camps out and spends thirty minutes checking each title, it kind of just makes it all less fun.

PS1 and Gamecube stuff sells like gangbusters on Amazon.

Gamecube stuff sells well. The good stuff also gets snapped up quick. I think the prices have stayed flat at this particular store because only a select group of titles get picked up fast. The rest sit for weeks. So, you can walk in an find four copies of SpongeBob. The hardware also sits for extended periods of time even priced as low as $6.90 for a complete console. So, I think they basically figured it isn't that desirable.

That is probably relatively accurate. I mean, there are a select group of Gamecube titles that are in high demand, but there is a lot of kiddie stuff or cross-platform stuff too.

it's weird, it seems like all the cross-platform stuff sells better on GCN. i don't get that. maybe because the system is so cheap now it's seeing an increased adoption rate amongst families with young kids?

[noiseredux]

it's weird, it seems like all the cross-platform stuff sells better on GCN. i don't get that. maybe because the system is so cheap now it's seeing an increased adoption rate amongst families with young kids?

maybe cuz of the install-base of backwards compatible Wii's?

[aaron]

it's weird, it seems like all the cross-platform stuff sells better on GCN. i don't get that. maybe because the system is so cheap now it's seeing an increased adoption rate amongst families with young kids?

maybe cuz of the install-base of backwards compatible Wii's?

that too. the GC software was also produced in smaller quantities, usually. so that might drive the price up a bit.

[oxymoron]

it's weird, it seems like all the cross-platform stuff sells better on GCN. i don't get that. maybe because the system is so cheap now it's seeing an increased adoption rate amongst families with young kids?

maybe cuz of the install-base of backwards compatible Wii's?

that too. the GC software was also produced in smaller quantities, usually. so that might drive the price up a bit.

Couldn't they have reduced cost and sold more if they had just used regular discs instead of the custom one? The GC would have sold a lot better if they'd done that.

[ninjainspandex]

The discs were intentionally small to reduce load times, I actually prefer cross plat games on the cube because of the quick load times. Too bad not alot of rpgs on the system, could of been a huge boon.