When will SNES games start going down in price again?

[mas]

It's not only snes games that are up there. It's cost me 30.00 for zelda which in our world is ok in price but castlevania bloodlines coat me 40.00 which last year it was around ten dollars. So everything's gone up. Thank god i had credit. Everything I got for the snes and genesis was on credit. It would of cost me almost 300.00

[Ack]

I have some rare copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt that I'd be willing to sell you guys. Just saying.

[darsparx]

I'm pretty sure smb/duck hunt isn't rare, though i'm not sure

[Hobie-wan]

Do I really need to explain why a poorly-received, niche RPG with a small print run will be difficult to track down later?

No, I'm objecting to the continued misuse of phrases like "X will become rare in the future". It might become harder to purchase because it isn't in the store anymore and people are holding on to their copies. But if there were 10000 copies printed, I'm reasonably sure there will still be least 9975 of them existing in the world in 5 years time, allowing for dogs, toddlers, house fires, extreme parental room cleaning, bad break up throw-everything-off-the-5th-floor-balcony incidents, and leaving it on the roof of the car to destroy a few of the copies.

So again, unless half of them are going to disintegrate in the near future or there's a witch hunt and mass book burning, it isn't "destined for rarity".

[wclem]

Do I really need to explain why a poorly-received, niche RPG with a small print run will be difficult to track down later?

No, I'm objecting to the continued misuse of phrases like "X will become rare in the future". It might become harder to purchase because it isn't in the store anymore and people are holding on to their copies. But if there were 10000 copies printed, I'm reasonably sure there will still be least 9975 of them existing in the world in 5 years time, allowing for dogs, toddlers, house fires, extreme parental room cleaning, bad break up throw-everything-off-the-5th-floor-balcony incidents, and leaving it on the roof of the car to destroy a few of the copies.

So again, unless half of them are going to disintegrate in the near future or there's a witch hunt and mass book burning, it isn't "destined for rarity".

My bet is with all the repro carts and general discarding of them that the sports games may be a little harder to come by one day. Truthfully, I hardly ever see madden for the Snes around here anymore. Makes you wonder what is more rare?

[Hobie-wan]

My bet is with all the repro carts and general discarding of them that the sports games may be a little harder to come by one day. Truthfully, I hardly ever see madden for the Snes around here anymore. Makes you wonder what is more rare?

Right, that would be a likely proper use of phrases like that where a larger number are being destroyed or transformed. Even though I don't have much love for sports titles, that urinal made out of SNES sports games a few years ago made me shake my head.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Do I really need to explain why a poorly-received, niche RPG with a small print run will be difficult to track down later?

No, I'm objecting to the continued misuse of phrases like "X will become rare in the future". It might become harder to purchase because it isn't in the store anymore and people are holding on to their copies. But if there were 10000 copies printed, I'm reasonably sure there will still be least 9975 of them existing in the world in 5 years time, allowing for dogs, toddlers, house fires, extreme parental room cleaning, bad break up throw-everything-off-the-5th-floor-balcony incidents, and leaving it on the roof of the car to destroy a few of the copies.

So again, unless half of them are going to disintegrate in the near future or there's a witch hunt and mass book burning, it isn't "destined for rarity".

This.

Even games like EarthBound aren't particularly "rare."

If it's always listed on eBay, it ain't rare.

The rarest games I own are probably some Commodore and Tandy floppies. Each one is also worth a couple of bucks each on a good day. No demand.

[Cronozilla]

Yeah. Game prices are entirely due to demand, almost never determined by rarity. It has to be exceedingly rare for it to be expensive due to rarity (sub-500 copies). Otherwise, it's just popularity.

[Hazerd]

AEROOOOOO FIGHTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

[Retrogamer0001]

Semantics at its best...

Let's substitute the word valuable for rare then.