by the way, this is YOUR fault.because everyone on the internet wouldn't shut the fuck up about >muh Emerald>muh Platinum>muh HGSS>muh B2W2endless fucking glazing and dicksucking, now people made up this fake idea that the games are "rare" and "scarce" to drive up the prices through the roof, even though they sold several million copies.Meanwhile XY, SM and other Pokemon games are still bargain bin prices because they didn't have an army of autists on the internet fellating those games non-stop.
>>58931409Just don't buy them, lol.
Scalpers and many Americans want to turn things into a profit is why the prices are skyrocketing.Anyway, what's a good price to get one of these? On eBay, they go for around 200-250 USD at the lowest. For excellent quality its 300+. It honestly doesn't look like the prices are going down on these things.What's a decent price to get a N2DS XL LL and/or N3DS XL?
>>58931409>Meanwhile XY, SM and other Pokemon games are still bargain bin prices because they didn't have an army of autists on the internet fellating those games non-stopor because they were easily available on the eshop up until 2 years ago lmao
Those games are no longer sold physically and were never sold digitally.Also, a lot of people skipped Gen 3 specifically and forgot about Pokemon after the 90s. Look at that giant, huge gap between the 2000s and now. Maybe pople rediscovering the series or trying to get their childhood back during Covid.
>>58931422>>58931438availability has nothing to do with it. The prices were perfectly fine before chink flu and well after they all went out of print. And then they became scalper targets.
>>58931409>Meanwhile XY, SM and other Pokemon games are still bargain bin prices because they didn't have an army of autists on the internet fellating those games non-stop.Or maybe it's because those games aren't good.
>>58931409Wasn't HGSS actually rare because of the Pokewalker? I remember wanting to get another copy back around 2016 because I sold mine around 2012 but ended up not because of how much money the game cost.
>>58931409>Meanwhile XY, SM and other Pokemon games are still bargain bin prices because they didn't have an army of autists on the internet fellating those games non-stop.They're cheaper because they're newer. That's it. And yeah, I'm totally cool with this. I still own all of my copies.>>58931462Rare is a bit much, but it only had one print run because of the Pokewalker. It still sold well over 12m copies worldwide.
>>58931479ah yes, XY the 2013 game still being $40 today is the same thing as the 2012 game B2W2 being nearly $200
>>58931483XY, the game that was available on the eshop with its price suppressed at $30 for 10 years, is a different situation entirely than B2W2, a game that was able to go out of stock.
>>58931487B2W2 was like $40-45 CIB before covid in 2019. The same as XY.One game became a target for scalpers during covid, the other did not.
>>58931409there's no reason to own physical copies anyway when it's so easy to emulate them and even jailbreak the 3ds if you want to play them handheld. so, let retards who are obsessed with owning material goods keep paying out the ass for them, it's a good thing that people can make a profit selling them off.
>>58931500Because you can't scalp a game that has infinite stock and a set price at $30 on the fucking eshop, you retard.
>>58931409I got rid of all my game cases a while back and I'm so mad at myself. I still have the carts and could turn a decent profit, but if I knew they were going to climb in price like this I never would have tossed the cases.
>>58931508I sold off my Professor Layton Azran Legacy and Layton vs Wright copies like back in 2017 for peanuts and I almost wanted to kms when I saw the prices for them today.
>>58931409Yeah its our fault nintendo enshittified physical media so much that people are stockpiling the good stuff
>>58931409Those games were never digitally distributed
>>58931479>I still own all of my copies.based. same here, also have a few copies from my friends when they decided they were too old for Pokemon.
>>58931540Similar boat. Sold pretty much most of my Wii games and all of my Wii U games because I was getting the Switch. One of them was Rhythm Heaven Fever, bargain bin fodder in the late 2010s, and incredibly high quality in spite of it. Come 2022, Jaiden Animations makes a video about it, and suddenly it's 100-150 bucks. My library had a copy so I ended up pirating it lmao
>>58931449Widespread scalping is a symptom of the crashing job market. This is a job, albeit a shit one, that anyone can do. No hiring, no layoffs. Just be the person who shows up at Walmart at 6:58 or whatever, and be willing to reach over the person who got there first, and you can do it.
>>58931508I made like 4000 over 2022-2024 just selling DS & Wii paraphernalia. Instruction booklets, weird shit packed into the boxes, the boxes themselves. Didn't even actually sell any games I thought there was a snowballs chance in hell I'd actually want to play again.Being part of the problem was nice. I'm still sitting on that little egg.
>>58931459>Or maybe it's because-ACK!
I hate myself for not buying Pokemon BOX. I remember back in 2012, it was already around 70 bucks and I remember thinking "who the fuck would pay this much for a shitty PC storage game lol". And then in like 2017 when I had nostalgia fagged out and purchased a bunch of Gen 3 and 4 + GameCube Pokemon games, it was like 200-300 dollars while the mainline games were around their release price. Now it's over $1000
>>58931613>metacritic>2026You might as well post vgsharts.>>58931621just get a modded GC/Wii. I had a copy that i bought as a kid and sold my copy during Covid for $1500.
>>58931421Seconding this, I've been looking for one of these as well. The prices are super inflated I think, just like most DS stuff.
Xy is double what it was a year ago
>>58931625Yeah I got a modded Wii and bought a cheap PAL Pokemon Box that came with Colosseum (it works with NTSC games)
>>58931628there's a cope that the 3DS bubble is going to pop when people getting them get tired or play through the library of games and sell them off, but it's most likely going to remain pricey.I'd take the chance and grab some cheap DSi now before they're hit by some autistic wave of nostalgia too
Nah, I'm not a putz who didn't keep his old games, nor an afterbirth that missed the earlier Gens.
>>58931567what's that multi cart case? Might get one for traveling
>>58931631XY was $20 before covid, it's now like $40. Now that the eshop closed it's even likely that it will start going up in price, unironically.Though there's no actual scalper market for the game yet. I think Ultra SM is more likely to get scalped.
>>58931737The thing that's going to hurt the 3DS games is that they're made with cheaper flash memory than the DS games, some of the carts are unironically dying, and it's an actual problem with PAL copies of Omega Ruby in particular.
>>58931409I don't understand what the point of your thread is.
>>58931625If we're posting charts, does anyone have the steam chart for Little Town Hero?The cosmic alignment that brought 11 people together to play the game at the same time once is too sad.
>>58931409What's the problem? I bought all those games when they came out and I still have them. Are you a zoomer?
