Even outside of tourist areas, shits so expensive anymore.
Good.Keeps the riff-raff and Johnny-come-latelys out of the hobby.
>>12706410...it's expensive because the riff-raff got into the hobby...
>buy up every non-sports game to collect dust on your shelf>drive up prices for the people who actually want to play the games>rape used game market so hard, end up importing JP games to hoard>rape used JP game market so hard the JP can't enjoy the retro game scene anymore since everything is super expensive now>literally zero shame about fucking the retro game market of both the western world and Japan>only cares that 'SHIT IS SO EXPENSIVE BRO, ITS NOT FAIR'God hoarders have zero self awareness. You are the cause of your own problems. Before you retards had to hoard everything in moonrunes, the JP enjoyed a cheap used retro games market where prices remained low because they weren't hoarding shelves of plastic. No one cares to hear you whine about problems you created for yourself, fuck off.
People don't have to give you their stuff.You are the riff-raff that you speak of.Retro games are free. If you want the physical shit that badly, you have to compete against the millions of others who believe that only they are the one true real god gamer who "deserves" other peoples' things. You've also got to compete with collectors that don't even like games and youtubers who want that "real" backdrop for their 15 subscriber channel.If you actually cared about playing the games, you'd just emulate or pay for a newer port.
>he didn't complete his collection before 2015zoom zoom
>>12706405>shits so expensive anymoreAmericans are so poorly educated nowadays.
>>12706405kek is my gameboy color finally worth something? I remember finding it 10 years ago and it wasn't worth shit.
>>12706443>EVERYONE IS AMERICANBut you're not obsessed at all huh you esl faggot lmao
>>12706405>NOOOOO MY HECKIN SUPER POTATO DEN DEN MISE'S PRICES HAVE GONE UP A RINO, DAMN FILTHY GAIJIN, BUT NOT ME BECAUSE I'M A REAL AN TRUE NIHONJINRON ALT JET TSUYOI GANBARE GANBARE UBERMENSCHEN, THAT SOMEDAY YUKI AT THE MINISTOP WILL LOVE ME AND BE MY WIFE UNLESS RANJEET GETS TO HER FIRST, I'M SO LONELY IN MY 10m2 1LDK NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>12706418>you are the cause of your own problems. The problem is that there are jap sites that will sell and ship directly to foreign lands. Nips should be pissed at their fellow countrymen for selling out their heritage.
>>12706405Why does the green one cost almost twice as much
>>12706584Exotic Western model
watashi know what watashi has, baka gaijin
Used console prices in the UK at CEX (kinda like Gamestop):PS2: £120Nintendo DS: £60GBA: £80PS3:£120PS1: £80Gamecube: £80I remember being a kid and seeing gamecubes sell for £30 with any free game of your choice. PS2 only a few years ago was £40.
>>12706732Ps2 is the Biggest jump up. I got mine for like 35 dollars with 2 controllers in 2017. I saw one for 140 with a single shitty 3rd party controller like 2 months ago Normies are done grifting 5th gen and moved to 6thI think actually we are in the prep for the 7th gen demand, I have unironically seen a couple of 360/ps3 was the best vids in my feed the last few weeks
>>12706739They're like locusts why can't they leave us alone
>>12706732i remembered when they were basically giving away Wii consoles and games in the mid 2010s or so but that's not /vr/.i remember 1 OG XBox in a second hand shop , but they don't seem to know if it actually works. don't remember the price for that.they're all gone now. they only wanna sell 2nd hand rolexesand furni now
>>12706405I found good deals at hard-off in the suburbs. I wasn't specifically shopping for Nintendo though. Would have liked to bring back some of the dirt cheap broken consoles to fix up but luggage space is an issue.
Retro gamers don't know what an actual expensive hobby is. Even with the prices at an all time high now, retro gaming is still one of the cheapest hobbies to get into.
>>12706443>op makes a grammatical error>MUH AMERICANSAmerigods live in your head RENT FREE
>>12706769This. Plus what's cool about it is that I can just flip back what I use for the same or more than I paid for it. I usually buy at -30% of pricecharting and sell back for the same. Buying new games is always at least a 50% loss.
>>12706769The difference is we're not boomers with millions in the bank to gleefully waste. Of course golf and train collecting are expensive when they came from an era where people had more money than they knew what to do with.
>>12706756Go to a flea market and Wiis, 360s and Xbones are still practically given away.
>>12706591It's actually 専売 ("exclusively sold") not just 販売 ("sold"), but it's still impressive how well that works
>>12706405Nobody is paying hundreds of dollars for bog standard junk store condition GBCs.
>>12706405Maybe you trannies should stop buying and drying their supply like retard because your fucking e-celbs told you to dry japanese supply after they rape the american prices, JUST EMULATE NOW!
>>12706418Hey remember when Tranny Smith was trying so damn hard to defend and cope this by claiming ''It was just the course of destiny and its the japs fault!''?
>>12706539>Victim Blaming is Kewl!
>>12706769>retro gaming is still one of the cheapest hobbies to get into.not if i blackmail a bank, and run a classic arcade while faithfully paying royalties to Namco.
I was in Japan in 2018 and 20242018 was heaven on earth, brought a duffle bag full stuff and wish I had got more.2024 pretty much what everyone describes now, at least in Tokyo. In Hiroshima the prices are still decent but less selection. Either way, if you're buying a flight to Japan just to get a GB Color then you're going to end up with a $1200 GB Color.
>>12707084It is partly their fault. They have online stores that anyone in the world can order from.
>>12707089>victims willingly lay down on railroad tracks
>>127064412010 for me anon. I paid £80 for complete and mint Panzer Dragoon Saga
>>12707129That slop isn't worth 80 pence
>>12707135Said the guy with no Panzer Dragoon Saga complete and mint.
>>12707137Guilty as charged, I only play quality games.
>>12706416...uhhh no it's expensive because that's just how economies work. why do SO MANY NIGGERS here not understand basic economic principles?????? and then have the gall to act like everyone else is the problem????? given enough time things that don't get made anymore WILL go up in price due to demand.
>>12707139Demand wouldn't go up if more didn't get into it.
>>12707319so right now is probably the cheapest time to get in to retro moving forward?
>>12707127>Trannies and lefties want their opponents dead and suffering, and think it's funny.You will NEVER be a woman.
>>12707124NO. it's your fault for being predatory subversive pigs, you infiltrated an echo system, subverted it, ruined the supply, and shit it up, and then blame it on capitalism and "SUPPLY AND DEMAND!"No, it was exploration, greed and power, you fucking commie pigs.
Yes, prices have gone up in Japan, but shit like this isn't a good example. These prices are more in the realm of what you'd pay for an NOS GBC, and even then you can get those for less than what they're asking for these used ones. Nobody is buying these GBCs, and they'll either sit in the display case forever while the store owner seethes because none of those mythical rich gaijin YouTubers are dropping by their store to record themselves paying out the ass for some beat up old GameBoys, or they eventually concede and cut the price down to probably a quarter or less of what they're currently asking.This is the equivalent of a Facebook marketplace person who posts up a tattered VHS copy of Beauty and the Beast for hundreds of dollars because they "know what they have" after reading some clickbait about Disney black diamond home videos.
>>12707340Not my problem. A jap set up an online store to sell jap games and specifically designed it so non japs can order from it. They then happily accepted their money and shipped it half way across the world, even including a little origami or hand written thank you letter with it. Japs did this to each other. Some random foreigners showing up on their door step is only a small fraction of the issue.
One of many, many examples in society today of "got mine, fuck you".People are becoming more selfish, meaner and well...evil. Not that they don't have good reasons but still, ripe conditions for the weak to eat each other. That's what we're seeing.
>>12707340>you talking about me, boy?
You're stuck with tacky plastic junk that you paid big bucks for that means YOURE WINNING kek
>>12706443education and grammar are gay
>>12706791You don't need to be boomer, you just need to have literally any source of regular income instead of being some punk kid still or school or a literal NEET.
>>12707139>PPLY IN DENAND LOL,No tranny, it's expensive because YOU FUCK IT UP AND SHIT IT UP.To anyone else reading this thread, please do not fall for the bullshit, socialist, yes tranny mod l, socialist are the ones who predate places and then victim blame.Do not dare to even warn me or ban me mod, I do nothing wrong, I just point out that you and the people creating this problems have no clothes.
>>1270747310 years ago>WE'RE NOT TRYING TO TAKE YOUR GAMES AWAY10 years later>WERE ENTITLED TO TAKE THEIR GAMES AWAY, AND ITS GOOD, FUCK THEM CONSEQUENCES.>ITS NOT PREDATION OF EXPLOTATION, ITS SUPPLY AND DEMAND!So basically, THIS.I hate this goddamn website so much now.
>>12706405These don't seem congruent with Western eBay pricing, so I don't know what the game here is. Even considering the legend of the Pristine Japanese Console™, paying upwards of twice as much when screen lenses and buttons can be replaced for dollars is silly. I wonder what the local market pressure for this is? Or, consider this: the owner of that store is retarded.>>12706732>>12706739I think it's hard to consider how much time a decade is. Honestly, when you consider how fucked currency is (especially in America), the increases aren't as astronomical in many situations as one might expect. At least a machine is more worth its current price than an individual game going for 5x what it retailed at.
>>12707565>/v/tard gets BTFO showing how mentally deficient they are>starts screeching about trannies out of nowherekek like clockworkgo back to your home board little man. this place isn't for you.
>>12707691tranny smith gargles
>>12707703>still screeching about tranny boogeymenanyway, i accept your concession.
>>12706405>shits so expensive anymore.lmao>>12706410>Keeps the riff-raff and Johnny-come-latelys out of the hobby.my sides. absolutely embarrassing. you have to be older than 30 to be in this thread to even relate to the rest of us that have been hoarding things since the 1980s and 1990s. cringe.
>>12707569I didn't take anything by force. A little nip shopkeeper set up an ebay account and was happy to sell me used goods from his homeland.
>>12707551Based
>>12706769Yeah I agree lmao. Even with the spike this hobby is so cheap compared to close to every other hobby, even taking away that you can emulate everything for free.Take US Gamecube which is one of the hottest/expensive consoles to collect now. You have one extreme outlier with Pokemon Box (not even a game) but otherwise nothing above $650 even for the ultra expensive CIB collectors games. Even then you have two games above $500 CIB, and then only around 30 games above $100 CIB. Anyone with a paycheck can set some aside and get these games. If for whatever reason you wanted the full set you could spend $10,000 maybe $20,000 on the high end. Retards spend more for sealed pokemon boosters than that.People here crying the formerly $3 japanese game is now $20 is hysterical. Just emulate
>>12706405>so expensive anymore.Who are you, my friend's redneck dad?
>>12707139>2026>Still acting like economic theories (not principles, btw) are real
>>12707139I know this is bait but the "demand" for gameboys drops every year.Do you know anyone with kids? The only mobile gaming they do is on a tablet.
I emulate :)
