Game collecting is not what it once was

[prfsnl_gmr]

There are still 3,798 copies of the game left for sale, and it will be interesting to see if the game becomes a collector's item in the coming years.

It won't. Jason Rohrer's games sometimes have interesting concepts but they play and look like crap. Hence he can't even sell the bare minimum run.

I admit that it doesn't have cutting edge graphics. It sounds good, however, and it is pretty fun.

Also - and even if it were not very good - that fact would not stop it from becoming a collector's item:

[Exhuminator]

Maybe it will become a collector's item, who can tell in this crazy medium? I don't think it's the rarest turd of a DS game you can find though.

[Ack]

Hey now, relatively speaking those two aren't that bad. Super Noah's Ark 3D is in the top 5 FPS on the SNES(...of which there are only four), and ClayFighter Sculptor's Cut is one of the top fighting games on the N64(which isn't exactly hard...).

[prfsnl_gmr]

Maybe it will become a collector's item, who can tell in this crazy medium? I don't think it's the rarest turd of a DS game you can find though.

True. The list of rarest and most valuable DS games is full of some true gems...

http://blog.pricecharting.com/2008/07/5 ... games.html

[Ashrei]

I'm having trouble understanding why the PS3 prices are so unbelievably cheap.

My apartment got broken into about 3 years ago and they took all my consoles, movies and games . I recently just repurchased a PS3 and I'm finding games for $4 all day.

Stuff that wasn't even out yet when my system got stolen. The PS3 graphics look incredible to me still (Uncharted, Last of Us, etc.) and I'm thinking I got in at the right time for this console. I now own 10 games and haven't even spent $40.


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[Exhuminator]

I'm having trouble understanding why the PS3 prices are so unbelievably cheap.

Because it's in the generational transition sweet spot right now. This is why I never buy a new console until right when its successor has been released. Everybody's dumping their PS3 stuff on the market to have cash for buying PS4 stuff. Those of us who take advantage of this means we're playing old games but we're gettin' dem deals son.

[Michi]

Maybe it will become a collector's item, who can tell in this crazy medium? I don't think it's the rarest turd of a DS game you can find though.

True. The list of rarest and most valuable DS games is full of some true gems...

http://blog.pricecharting.com/2008/07/5 ... games.html

From 2008? That thing is horrendously out of date. With the exception of the import and the new crossover with Professor Layton, the Ace Attorney games are all hovering around the $20 or less range.

[Ack]

I'm having trouble understanding why the PS3 prices are so unbelievably cheap.

My apartment got broken into about 3 years ago and they took all my consoles, movies and games . I recently just repurchased a PS3 and I'm finding games for $4 all day.

Stuff that wasn't even out yet when my system got stolen. The PS3 graphics look incredible to me still (Uncharted, Last of Us, etc.) and I'm thinking I got in at the right time for this console. I now own 10 games and haven't even spent $40.


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A new generation has come out, so nobody's focusing on the previous one right now.

Generally the previous generation is the cheapest to collect at any given time, and two generations back will start to see a rise in prices. People tend to want either the next best thing or the old classics, so the last generation sits in a weird middle ground where companies like Gamestop are trying to liquidate stock and the people that want to go back for collecting or nostalgia purposes haven't caught on yet.

If you take a look at the overall averages on the Price Charts, Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox averages all slumped during the next generation but have started rising since the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One release, because people are either leaving the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 generation for the newer consoles or for older ones.

[Ashrei]

Either way, I'm happy about it


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[Fragems]

So very few games did this, Wayforward did it twice as Wendy Every Witch Way does this too on GBC-GBA.

That sounds interesting I'll have to check that out. Saw Wendy mixed in the $3 loose GB/GBA box the other day at the pawns.