The going price these days is more than the original value. For a decades old, fairly common game...
Anon, a dacent PS2 is being sold here for ~$210.In 2018 it was like $40 brand new in the box with two controllers..Everything is price gouged these days, this economy is shit mate.
>>12691867so screenshots of ebay listings is the current flavor of schizoposting right? "BROOOOOOOOOOO LOOK AT THIS EXPENSIVE GAME" yeah we know already
>>12691885The majority of the listings are from cunt mega-resellers these days. Nobody is selling that actually plays this shit anymore. I deleted my paypal a year ago I don't think I'm ever going back. I'm content with everything I have.
>>12691884Why do they all have the same tote bag?
>>12691867You can't even find common games for less then 20 dollars
>>12691890That's the point of scalping ain't it?
>>12691867I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Old games are free on the internet.
Just get the console and then pirate the games if you want the real hardware experience. Worry more about getting a CRT.
Legitimate question: why don't you want the things you own to rise in value? Why is buying something for $20 when it's new and having it become $5 in the future more desirable to you than having it become $90?
>>12691867>The going price these days is more than the original value.>Price in 1999: $49.99>in 2026 dollars ≈ $100No it’s not.
>>12691890I hate that covid turned everything in life into some kind of financial hustle, made worse because we're all still dealing with these market speculators even after that time period ended already. Sony's recent announcement will only cause these outlandish prices to skyrocket even more once the resellers begin to fearmonger used games.I'm getting by with piracy solutions on consoles, but even those are starting to climb up in price. MicroSD card prices alone aren't too pretty these days.
>>12691985>muh inflation in a vacuum fallacyDon't be such a nigger.
>>12691867You think that's bad anon? You should have seen all the cum-rags trying to see "black label" PS1 games as a premium luxury because they were assumed to be rarer just because they were a "first printing"
What should I do if I feel guilty for selling things at bullshit prices?
>>12691972This is something that I always ask. Nobody needs the physical copies to play the games, so clearly they've put value on physical ownership.
>>12692012Just remember the kind of retard who buys games these prices.
Last man on earth prices
>>12691985$50 in 1999 went much farther than $100 does today. CPI isn't an accurate metric for comparing real costs.
>>12691867See what they sell Chrono Trigger for on ebay now. $350+ for a old game that's super common.
>>12692037You could say the same thing about Earthbound. Not really rare, just in very high demand
>>12692037Butt chrono tricker isn't a 3rd rehash stincker but an stincker on its on time and time again on bleystations and ds heh 3rd time stincky stincker
>>12691884he needs to come out of retirement to troll people like this
>>12692048how much for this scuffed up copy of super mario bros?Two...HUNDRED....MILLION DOLLARS
>refubrished>Greatest hitsoof
>>12691867I'm actually selling off some old games and it's hilarious people are willing to pay insane prices for what is basically just plastic and a disc that will probably rot soon. Even weirder when it's a multiplat and the pc discs are extremely common and go for $10-20 when it's arguably the better version anyway
>greatest hitsthis is a humiliation ritual to actively collect for
>>12692063>>12692086People who actually play video games don't give a rat's ass about whether or not the spine of the game is green or black
>product released 30 years ago and out of production since then>most copies have been lost to time>many of the existing ones are in bad shape>relatively low supply because of the aforementioned issues>high demand because RE is one of the most popular series out there>"i-it has to be dirt cheap because... because it just HAS TO okay!!!"Nah. It's just basic supply and demand
>>12691995>MicroSD card prices alone aren't too pretty these days.The price per GB is lower than ever, they also are faster than ever. There are also more competition in the field giving you more price points than ever. Or are you saying that the price per card, for the most expensive, is too high?Just saying, I had a 128MB CF card for a DSLR long ago and I paid $299.
For PS1 you should just get one of those hacked memory cards and burn CDs.
>>12692127if you think my valuation of a janky ps1 horror game nobody much even thinks about is $90, you're wrong. My maximum bid would be $50. This is the most retarded shit I've seen, especially given pretty much everything I'd want is burned and freely available for emulation.And honestly? Think of how many retro collectable junk there is that people don't want. The atari crap, the obscure action figure crap, the antiques crap. The real going price for ps1 games nobody even would think about should be about $15 in a pawn shop, largely overlooked>>12691890>>12691884>>12691995explains a lot
>>12691972If I'm not going to sell it what difference does it make? If shit gets expensive then I have to see money grubbers chimp out over it and cheapskates endlessly bitch. If it's cheap then people just talk about the game.
This is what happens when the amount of money in circulation is more than doubled literally overnight. You get an Everything Bubble with ridiculously inflated prices on all kinds of random shit you'd never see otherwise due to all the cash sloshing around.
>>12692134>The price per GB is lower than everMemory cards have more than TRIPLED in less than a year because of all the AI shit going on. Don't act like a disingenuous nigger about it with your "akchually I bought this thing one time 20+ years ago" bs as if it's somehow comparable to modern circumstances. Literally everything that involves memory modules or digital storage is like this right now.I wish the black death upon your mother in case you're an ESL nigger as well.
how many copies of RE3 PS1 are in circulation, you think
>>12692256 three million copies sold worldwide
>>12692256quite a few, ebay is full of copies. Take a look at this, the real standing price of re3 prior to late 2025 was about $50. The exact price ballpark I quoted as what I'd be willing to pay
this by contrast is simply price fixing
actually, just look at this. Prior to covid-19 and the great moneyprinting the real value of resident evil 3 for ps1, a game nobody really much talks about... was $25. That might have cost an hour and a half work for a wagie. Now it costs about 5 hours, even with the increased wages.Are we not in hell? Is this not what hell looks like?
It is your moral obligation to mod your console to play backups.
>>126922621.5 million in North America. The population of USA is 341 million alone.
>>126922481TB sd card is half the price the 1st 1tb HDD I bought.Do you slice onions while you post on the internet? Because there are tears everywhere around your post.Everything is so easy today. Emulation is easy and cheap. Hardware that can handle said emulation is cheap and accessible. You can buy a machine that can emulate the Switch 1 and older for the price of a Switch 2. No hyperbole you can pick and choose a anywhere from a dozen to thousands of games and jam them on a computer and play them for about $650, if you are willing to pirate.Life is cake. Piracy is low effort. Crying on the internet over storage that can literally contain thousands of games costing 1/8 of the average 1 months rent, or less than one year of a shitty streaming service, is quite the stretch. I ain't gonna feel sorry for you if you can't afford to save up the equivalent of 3 modern video games to store thousands pirated vintage games.Literally cry somewhere else. Everyone has access to Amazon, Newegg, Micro Center or the equivalent. We know the prices aren't a hardship any more than buying 10 pizzas a year.
>>12691867>Price gouging is insaneYeah, but on the plus side those who still have their old carts and discs can make bank selling them on ebay now.
>>12691887>screenshots of ebay listingsThe fact such listings exist says nothing about whether or not it actually sells at that price. Sellers can create listings and set any price they want. It doesn't mean anyone would actually pay that price, necessarily. There are sites which show the average selling prices of certain games. That's the more reliable metric to use to determine what a given game is actually going for these days.I'm highly skeptical Resident Evil 3 would sell for $90. If it were some rare obscure title? Sure. But this is a Greatest Hits which means there are so many copies of them out there. Plus its been re-released and easy to get on newer platforms too.
>>12692127The whole supply and demand THEORY has gone out the window a long time ago. You'd have a point if someone was manufacturing reproduction copies of said video games, but that's not the case because of laws that actively prohibit real competition in the west. Incidentally Japanese copies remain cheap and relatively available in Japan. This whole thing is more of a westoid problem.
>>12691972Because it isn’t based on anything anon, it’s a made up market. It’s not silver. It’s not even a fucking rugpull meme coin, it’s copies of old video games encased in plastic. It’s not getting nicer or newer and the functionality of every single copy of an old game is a fresh variable every day. At least with cartridge based games it’s a binary of does this work Y/N, a PS2 game might work for 18 hours until it tries to load FMV and then it can’t anymore because of a hairline scratch. Don’t give these people your money.>>12692297Anon, are you implying more people are interested in a disc copy of Resident Evil 3 in 2026 than in 1999?
>>12691884sometimes it really feels like there are two kinds of human being. I can't even begin to empathize with someone who behaves like these parasites
>>12691972I wouldn't have bought it if I ever wanted to sell it. Why would you buy things just to sell them?? Unless that's your job or something, but in that case you mostly need to do it fast right? You buy from people who don't value the thing and then you sell ASAP to people who do, and that's where your profit comes from. I'm not running a decades-long investment scheme that's backed by some warehouse I control. So what if some old game that I still consider myself a fan of is now expensive enough that I could sell my copy and thereby fund my biweekly trip to Costco? Did I really hold onto it for thirty years so I could go through some annoying hassle on eBay, neutralize a single grocery bill, and then not even get to play my game anymore unless I go through yet more hassle to mod my console to read games from SD cards or whatever?
>>12692536there are 3 actually,hylics,psychics,and pneumatics.the people you see in this video are clearly hylics,they lack a soul or divine spark so to speak.
>Game prices are all derived from pricecharting which is derived from data from sold eBay listingsWhat's to stop a reseller from selling a game to themselves for an absurdly high price to skew the average price up, and then recoup the cost of the ebay fees and profit from a sale at the new average?
>12692310this is written by a LLM, don't reply.>>12692012well, if you sell for an affordable and friendly price, someone's going to buy and sell for the bullshit price.either way, the bull unfortunately still takes a massive shit.
>>12691885In Australia you could still buy a brand new PS2 Slim at retail in 2010 for $99 AUD. Pretty sure they were still even selling the pink one back then too, wish I got one just to keep it in the box.
>>1269198549.99?That's a Greatest Hits copy. The entire point of the label was that they were sold at a discounted price of $19.99
>>12691985>inflation meme applied to used goodsfuck you
>>12691884What am I even looking at here? Some TV show?
>>12691884total reseller death
Really thinking of selling off my collection since I have flash cards and ODEs for all my consoles. Really gotta look into one of them eink readers for game manuals, that's the only thing is miss if I sold my collection.
>>12692597LOL, zoom zoom. You are so embarrassed by your tears after someone did a price check.Waah, storing an entire SNES romset is 2.6gb, zip compressed, I can't afford another 16gb SD card.Get real.
>>12692669It is kinda meaningful. I wanted a cheap hauling truck last year. My neighbor was selling his 98 Silverado, all standard. For $5000, it only had 70k miles on it. He hardly drove it. I tried to whittle him on it and he said along the lines of "I have memories on this truck, I even had all the gaskets replaced and the transmission rebuilt for 2000k last year." Then he asked me how often I go to Costco and what it cost. And yeah he's right I spend no less $5000 a year on Costco and half of it is luxury items like chocolate, alcohol, gift cards, etc... one just has to budget their wants and needs. Some people feel compelled to collect. Others don't. Some people feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon others not.
>>12692976shitlennials are made to be curb stomped against the concrete pavement, shitlennials are made to be hung from the trees as display pieces, shitlennials should be castrated so they are incapable of passing on their retarded offspring, shitlennials should be beheaded by the Islamic State.
>>12692987What a compelling argument. Get a job pay for your hobbies. Stop expecting some form of socialism to give out free SD cards and free vidia.
>>12692990shitlennials should be executed, shitlennials should be raped, shitlennials should watch everything they ever love being stripped away from them
>>12692993This rings of Eric Cartman vibes. Peak VR here.
Take the flashcart and ODE pills already.You get real hardware advantage and no input lag, and most games are perfectly played on modern flashcarts even ones with special chips and Sega CD isos.
>>12693007I am so cheap, I have a Genesis but I want a cheap flash cart with Sega CD, there are only a couple games I want to play on real hardware. But reality is flash carts get a little expensive when they have to jam a mid size FPGA in it.
>>12692461Just showing that it may sell three million, but that isn't the whole picture. Survival horror is always going to be a high price collectable item. Then there are copies of the game you just don't understand because you possibly don't know Japanese. Then copies that people aren't willing to sell, or are lost, or are inoperable. How many North American copies are there really? Then you have new people being inducted into the Resident Evil series through new entries and remakes so they'd naturally want to play other entries in the series if they enjoyed the new games. So it's easy to see how 1.5 million copies can have their price driven up.
>>12691867Is that the realized price? No, it's a "buy it now" that nobody bought, now.You've made this thread a lot, this has to be thirdie cope. Prices will NEVER COME DOWN and you missed out. If you're poor you'll never own a single old game, and I suspect you're as poor as you are brown, OP.
