I think the next gen won't be interested in our childhood consoles, but I do think the gens after them will be for it's time in history, just like all other antiques. I think it'll leap frog in value.
My parents bought a ton of old antiques when those things were in fashion in the '90s. They actually planned to open an antique shop after they retired but never got around to it. Some of the items are still worth some decent money but most are worthless baubles and furniture no one will ever use again. So much money thrown away on a useless venture that I will have to one day clean up and/or thrown in the trash. I collected comics. Same deal. If it is not sought and in perfect shape, no one cares and it is useless. You can't sell something if there are no buyers. Likewise, there are some games that are still worth something with plenty of buyers right now, but that will not be the same in twenty years. Young people won't be interested in older retro games forever.
They are not worthless. They are mine...Mine they are my treasures dont care if its worth pennies or 0's. it is my childhood. it is my hobby. it is my life...They will always be my treasures :D
We put value into what we want. I say buy whatever you want, and makes you truly happy. Whos gives a fuxk what anyone says, xause im sure they spend “lots” of money on things we would never spend on but i bet they justify it.
Next-generation gamers often struggle with short attention spans, which means they might not have the same memorable experiences that older generations enjoyed during their childhood. Nowadays, kids are more focused on social media, where influencers shape their gaming habits. Popular games like Fortnite, ROBLOX, Minecraft and other online gaming dominate their playtime. While some may explore other genres, many stick to what's trending, showing less interest in diverse gaming experiences. Their constant engagement with social media and online gaming can lead to emotional highs and lows. This environment has contributed to a gaming culture where some developers create unappealing characters, clash with their audience, blame gamers for failures, and inject political ideologies into their games.
People who say they’re collecting games as an investment are just looking for justification for their out of control spending behavior. I’ve been there. Trust me.
So true. I have a decent collection, with rare games. But it's nothing you can't emulate. Even PS4 is getting there and you can just mod a PS4 and get the rare games anyway
I agree with all your points. Most notably, the collector based dwindling and the issue with liquidating a collection. There’s this thing I call the “nostalgia gap“ which is pretty much the length of time between when a child owning a system, and that child becoming a middle-age adult with a disposable income, who wants to buy back his nostalgic memories. The result is a sort of floating gap between what sells well today and what the current console was 30ish years ago. The popularity in retro Nintendo game collecting has come and gone, with only a few hard-core collectors left going for a full set. Prices have come down in general. And more to the point, I think in 20 years, all the original owners will be 60+ years old and all these old “toys” won’t mean much to them anymore. Certainly there will still be some people who collect them in the same way people now collect things just because they’re old or rare, but even that really depends on what current owners do with their collections. Selling is tedious and I think a lot will just be given away. And that brings me to the other point; liquidation is hard. To get the most value you really do need to sell each game one by one. If you try to sell an entire collection, all at once, you’re going to lose massive amounts of value, probably at least half. That’s not to say you’ll get nothing, but considering how much a person probably paid to get each title individually, to fill gaps and what not, they may not even break even. I’ve been selling my childhood collection, one by one and it has taken years. Literally years. And Ebay auctions take just a soul crushing amount in fees. Not to mention that coming up in 2025 Ebay will be sending 1099K forms to the government if you make more than $600, which means people will be forced to pay income tax on game sales now. Liquidation is a very real issue.
lol I was using dictation when I made this reply. And man it made some weird word guesses. Kudos to anyone who made it through the whole thing and understood what I meant ! Haha
It’s hard to say… I like that my collection is worth money, but it’s he number one reason I keep my collection of mostly 5th + 6th gen games is because I love having it and playing these games
Let's say it this way. If the economy continues to get worse, more people will wake up that buying digital games is throwing your money away. Having anything in your possession is money. Another thing, I collect for fun and because I like it, not exactly to make money and this is at my discretion.
People will realize it is not worth buying old games in general. All you really need is a jailbroken system and you can have the same experience you would have with a physical game on its original console the way it was meant to be played. For example a Wii, a 3ds, a psp or a Vita, once jailbroken you can play ANY game on that console for FREE. No point in paying scalpers their highway robbery prices.
@@atomixfangI like the emulators and newly released retro consoles and all the ways to play old games. It saves ware and tare on the games and consoles in my collection. So I play NES/SNES games on super retro trio and keep my og consoles in box. I also have beat up og consoles for the little kids so they gave fun too.
I sell not only retro games, I sell Records and everything has a worth depending on what people are paying for it. What you have to watch however is the price of entry. For example if you paying market value for say a game like Earthbound and you pay $400 and let’s say demand goes down as well as the price, then you are losing money. Thats why I try to pay under market value and if I resell I don’t try to sell at market value I sell to where not only I make a profit but the buyer also has a margin of gain, that way everyone is happy. Thats why I separate what I buy as a collector versus what I buy as a seller.
You can make retro games a business if you know what you are doing and have knowledge/experience in running/operating a business. Some video games I bought as a kid and kept are worth 10x or more than what I paid. They are therefore an investment that when I sell it for cash is a good investment. Vast majority of games though tend to have low pricing and stay flat for years. Those games may be titles you couldn't give away for free. All you can do is perhaps bundle them with desirable games and sell as a collection. But, retro games investment only requires a few games to do extremely well to more than offset a dozen+ games that are worthless. So.. it depends. Have to be smart. Original consoles though will always have value. Twitch community needs them for speedruns / retro tournaments / etc. But, eventually CRT televisions will no longer exist and eventually original console systems will all be in unrepairable states.
I have found the worse place to get games is through vintage video game store's. I can get games on Ebay for cheaper than what they sell for like 10 to 20 dollars cheaper or more.
Investing in games at retail value hoping they go up is not a good idea, but spending $3 on $50 games at Goodwill or yard sales is always a good investment.
My take is that retro game prices haven't hiked up too much when you take inflation into account. Certain items are now worth considerably more, especially sealed games, but I shake my head when people say they have been priced out of retro game collecting. If you're out to collect the most rare and valuable stuff, then yes, the top end of the market looks different now. But that's what people want it to be, right?
As someone who likes j-rpgs like dragonquest... it's mad expensive. I'm priced out on experiencing the ds games. I ended up buying dragonquest 3 hd 2d remake for the switch for $60... while the og gbc version is like $60-90 Now i'm waiting for dragonquest 1+2 hd 2d remake Hopefully square enix brings 4 & up to the switch as well as Dragon quest monster games from the gbc & ds. I've been relying on nintendo to port their older games slowly. Picked up pikmin 1-4, metroid prime, bayonetta trilogy, advance wars 1+2... etc
@b4rs629 I've just compared the USA DS games to European DS games. Prices for European copies are much lower. It might be worthwhile looking at the import copies. Some Ebay sellers will send to USA if you ask.
I havent gotten into retro games for moneyary reasons, i've mainly started buying 6th gen games to ply the old games i once played when i was I was younger bug also to catch up on some of thecthings I missed out. I've seen gamd prices Rise and fall and i will not bother to try anc predict what will shoot up or not, honestly i would of never saw a new Okami coming so theres that. If im going to sell anything its if I get another copy of a game I already have. I have Enter the matrix for PS2 and gamecube, i forgot that I had The Force Unleashed for Ps2 and accidentally purchasec another copy, this time the Red label. If anything I'll sell those games to get another game that I reallh want.
I "collect" games and consoles I want to play with not just display or anything else. I simply enjoy playing the games I buy. I do take good care of them and sometimes spend a little more time on them. Is this bad or am I all good?
Selling games can take a lot of your time and some effort too. It's worth considering what your time is worth. About 4-5 years ago I had a massive house problem and needed cash, but the work was also going to take a long time between all the permitting and waiting for supplies. So it could be paid in phases. It worked out pretty well because I could just list something every day, or a few things every Sunday and just ship things out as they sold. I could spread out my time selling, and also turning it into cash. Having to turn a lot into cash quickly would be a huge hassle. Personally, I hope retro games lose a lot of their value just so it becomes a cheap hobby again lol
Emulation has already caused retro game value to go down. Agreed... selling a few things every week is the way to go. Although I do wish I would have been a part of the 2021 / 2022 Gold Rush 😂
@@RealHomeRecording I sold most of childhood gamecube collection because I knew the prices probably wouldn't go any higher. Only games I kept was pokemon coloseum, animal crossing, and mario party 4. Right now I'm enjoying buying ports of older nintendo / square enix games. Advance wars 1+2, Dragonquest 3 hd 2d remake, Metroid Prime remastered, bayonetta trilogy, pikmin 1-4, etc...
I think there will always be interest in older games and hardware, much because the fact you own nothing today and the newer the games and consoles the less ownership you have. old games you own and they can´t take it away from you or change it´s content. I think the biggest problem is to keep the hardware and media alive. the older it gets the more will die due to age. I have tons of old computers and hardware and I more and more have to open them up and repair them due to leaky capacitors for example. those who can´t repair stuff on component level will have problems with this
I think kids today will be nostalgic for ps5/xbox stuff, as weird as it might sound. I also think it’s a matter of perspective. Someone who grew up on the NES and SNES will be nostalgic for those consoles, but have no interest in anything afterward. And then you have the other side of the coin, with people like me who grew up on DS/Wii who are nostalgic toward those consoles but they still respect everything that came before.
I only had nintendo growing up. So my nostalgia is heavily invested there. N64, gba, gamecube, wii, 3ds, & now switch. I had a og xbox for a brief period, but it died along with my n64. I missed out on a lot games like Halo... etc. I've got a series x just to experience xbox games through gamepass.
I was happy to see most of the PS2 games I had to sell years ago were only priced in the teens for complete copies. There's only select titles for that system that are actually expensive. Same with OG Xbox. It's almost always been cheap except for the games people with TH-cam followings hype up and cause a spike for. In the 6th gen there were a lot of speculative buyers who would pre-order every RPG at Gamestop and buy like 2 copies, so games like GrimGrimoire that some people thought would be rare ended up being common. When I stream PS2 games on TH-cam, I barely get any viewers either. I think in general people just aren't that into 6th gen at the moment.
That's why I don't speculate in games. I just buy what I like, play it, & move on. I get perplexed when I see people who buy a physical copy & digital copy... only to keep the physcal copy sealed.
I don't know me and a friend took trade in games to our local game store I had 2 games he had a boxful of games 😊 I got 3 times the amount as him. Shovelware sure is not worth anything but if u do it right your collection can be worth a lot
Yup. I only collect what truly interests me.. it's paid off into a valuable curated collection. I had gba / gamecube growing up... and while everyone was beefing over xbox 360 & ps3. As a little kid I knew the gamecube games would be very valuable when I grew up. I cashed out in 2020-2022. Only games I have left is pokemon colosseum, mario party 4, & animal crossing because they mean a lot to me. I put that money into nintendo exclusives & sqaure enix ports on the switch & a few pokemon games on the ds/ 3ds.
Ya, I always dreamed of owning a n64 as an adult... I used to have it as a kid, but never bothered buying because it just doesn't have a lot of games. The only games I own for ds / 3ds is pokemon.
Looking at it in monitary value is so sad. Its supposed to be a passion that you can pass along. I hope my collecrion is never sold. My kids play both new and old consoles. They will always be worth something to someone. My son plays on vr headsets, steam, gog, and and og hardware his first consol was one if my atari 2600s and hes playing silent hill 2 on the og xbox now. But buying games as a financial investment is crazy, its not supposed to be THAT kind of value.
It's artificial scarcity. The market is completely FAKE due to having no working resale market. GameStop went under, eBay taxes you, and you have to file over $600. Retro hardware DISINTEGRATES over time. The capacitors leak. The cartridge has save game BATTERIES that go bad. EVERYONE WILL BUY EMULATORS. Collecting every game in existence to cause artificial scarcity RUINED THE MARKET. You can't sell even if you WANTED to. SELL NOW BEFORE IT CRASHES. Otherwise, you're simply collecting for yourself, and don't care the market drops out.
they WILL care about old hardware but they will complain and not want to put the work and learning into playing it. They will NOT be worthless because of the value with them. It may not be the preference to play them for the newer generations though. And they would use emulation simply because its free. Every generation will become more interested in emulation and have it as a option even if they collect retro, many people already do. And they will value the ps4 generation since the ps5 is reliant upon its library.
I made $4,000 this month selling my retro games Last year I made $6,000 during December I sell 7 days a week in a major city, I've made in total around $30,000 as a hobby lol Don't listen to this guy and his little.predictions
I don't know if this is necessarily true. I collect retro games, and have no nostalgic ties to them since I grew up with Gamecube, PS3, and PSVita. And I'm far from the only one. Also, the further in the future we get, the less common these games are gonna get. Regardless, I'll never sell my copy of LSD:Dream Emulator. It's Mine!
Well.... I used to have a few gaming systems but they started breaking down over time and use.... Sega Genesis/CD, Playtation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Nintendo Game Cube, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Wii. In all Honestly I only have my Wii, N64, and PS3 left. The rest were impossible to fix or impossible because I just didn't have the money at the time to fix them, and I still don't. I don't even have many of those consoles anymore. What sold me on emulation was the PS5 fiasco when COVID hit and it was bad enough when the scalpers were buying all the PS5's with bots and so on, but what really pissed me off was the black dude who took a picture of his Eiffel Tower of PS5's he had in a small warehouse or possibly a storage unit perhaps and you know what? Call me a racist all you want but there's something about the African American community and their nasty attitudes to boast their.... possessions... and the dude wrote on the bottom of the picture he took of all the PS5's and he said.... "Fuck your feelings." Okay, dude. That's fine. Jack up the prices on the PS5's 3-4x the amount of the original MSRP and then leave a comment like that with your tower of PS5's. That's cool, dude. I bought my first emulation system at that point in time and really man.... I haven't "looked back" since. And I have to say I was actually willing to pay that ridiculous price on Ebay a few years back for almost $2,000.00, but of course someone had to be a butt munch and BRAG their faces off and make sure to rub it in and that was the beginning of the end for new consoles for me. Okay dude.... you cheatd the system and used bots to buy a bunch of PS5's and your little tower of power of PS5's is impressive, but uh.... you wanna be a dick? Okay. That's fine, too. No more consoles for me. Thank you for making my life better. I paid a little over $200.00 for thousands of my favorite retro games compared to almost $2,000.00 for a brand new price jacked system. My first emulation system was 8 TB and I'm up to 12 TB now. It's all good, buddy. You do you, boo boo. Just had to be a dick, man. Good for you good buddy!
they treat it as a gold mine with those prices, i dont wanna pay them, and i wont pay them, pokemon games especially cant be worth the price they are tagged at because they are absolutely best sellers on each console they released on theres no purpose for the high price tags they have other than profit, and consoles? why are they hundreds of bucks no matter when they came out, yea working hardware gets rarer over the years but it cant be that rare to find a working ps2 or nes like those things are about the most reliable things out there and you telling me they worth 130+? come on, this stuffs getting insane, ill have to just emulate soon
systems breaking down too, ps2 needs new lasers on the slim models cause they were cheapy, some SNES are starting to fail now after being so old....getting to that point now.
I started emulating this year. It's been awesome. I buy ps4 and ps5 thats it. I made a ps2 fat with a 4tb hardrive, 3ds with hshop, dsi xl with r4 card, gamecube with picoboot, next is a vita. Emulating is awesome. I have everything running on native hardware no lag and all games at my finger tips. It's out of control.
@@ant9771 yeah people dont like emulation cause A. are afraid to emulate cause they think its illegal, B. Dont want to lose the clout and rank from buying thousands of dollars of video games on their youtube channel. and C. you dont get recognition when you can immediately download full sets of games on emulation within minutes. meanwhile they dont realize how far its come and how much better it is in most cases, not to mention free..but its not about the games or gameplay to them its about the money..roms and emulators are worthless, and theres no addiction or dopamine hits for them doing emulation
@@BanditsBest686 They will all fail. Never chase money. Always someone more immoral, stronger, more greedy, you always lose when money becomes the objective. Im emulating for life. Eventually ill sell my ps4 and ps5 collection currently worth 20k and emulate those as well.
@@ant9771 i mean proof is in the pudding with all these rich youtube resellers, you cant emulate them or pretend to be them by buying all the same crap they have, they have a bought/paid for bank roll and or have way more money then you can fathom. alot of them wont tell you that thats why they can afford to spend $1500 for a manual to complete some game or to do these full sets over and over to me these people are just modern age drug dealers peddling stuff
I sold all my games before it was too late and bought everdrives with that money. Theres still some games I like to collect. Midnight club series because I was also a street racer. I also like to collect DDR game because it reminds of the 90s arcade and dance era. People are selling NES at crazy prices and I won't ever spend what theyre asking because theyre in fact not worth anything. I had a hard time selling my an Rgb moded n64 with everdrive x7 and most people kept low balling my paid for pieces in parts. Kids even some how legally gamble with football games on their phone and know how to invest when I was watching power rangers. lol The gen will be kids that actually enjoy the games but it won't be the kind of niche that makes those games worth anything.
To me they are priceless, even if they are worth $5 or $1,500. I haven’t been interested in selling, but in a way I hope you are right. I would hope many lower in price so I can buy more lol
Unless job losses hit the people with the collections... I don't think prices will go down. I only sold off my collection because of job layoffs during the pandemic.
@ yes I think you’re right. It’ll mainly come down to liquidating if the economy continues to get worse. I really hope it doesn’t come to that for more people, but I’m sorry that happened to you and you had to make that choice. I hope you’re in a much better situation now or will be soon
No one wants to pllay any of these old games just like nobody wants to play with a ball in a cup. As people, we've moved on. There's no appetite for pong, even if it was the first commercially available game.
I'd rather play older games I never played than new releases of modern games. I'm about to play through final fantasy 1-10 + 12 on my switch... it's gonna be a long journey.
I don't think you know what the word worthless means. It doesn't just mean value of $0 lol. Also I don't believe $0 as I can sell my games online for whatever value the game is worth. Maybe I'll get $100-200 worth. Depending if they buy the game off me. For retro gaming I play the games over & over again so they are worth playing.
You can't completely say that yet they may change before it's all over even if they may not care could still become a trend again even if not very likely!
Old consoles will always be better then anything from the 9th gen onward including the Nintendo Switch because the Nintendo Switch is a 9th gen console.
lol how does RNG gamer have $150,000 collection? WTF does he have and that sounds a foul bet...he goes to sell that hes not getting $150,000 so whatever insurance policy he got must be some reeg. yeah there will be a time once all the addicts, nostalgia nerds, and people who care about this stuff die off people wont care about spending thousands for video games anymore, the next generation is actually probably smart in a sense and wouldnt spend their life savings on video games...theyd just spend it on digital goods they dont own LOL
My collection if entirely sold is probably worth $50,000. It doesn't take much to end up with a super high $ collection if you have been collecting for a long time. I kept every physical game I ever had as a 8 year old kid. Gameboy Master Blaster Boy (loose cartridge and I believe I have the manual) but just loose cartridge is $100+. That is just 1 Gameboy game. If you were lucky to have a handful of games like that to start off your collection and took advantage of collecting a lot of games pre-pandemic.... You would be surprised just how crazy it gets. But, of course, just because something is worth $X amount doesn't mean you can successfully sell it all for that price.
@@JeffMac2012 lmk if you can make $50,000 of it tho...your going to sell each game 1 by 1 to make $50,000? Nah you gotta find someone else willing to bulk buy it, and when people bulk buy you dont get top retail dollar surprise Jeff...this is what ive been trying to hammer into peoples heads they buy all this shit under the promise itll go up in value but most of them learn when they go to sell it cause they need money, they are lucky to break even.... Unless its stuff they paid nothing for and held onto for all these years, then of course ull make some sort of profit since u have nothing into it or almost nothing, but it wont be 100% retail value
You would have to a ton of stuff and the stuff would have to be very rare. I have a ton of stuff as. Far as consoles and games but my pinball machines, the 21 I have is probably around 100k. No way a retro collection of games and consoles are 100k@@JeffMac2012
@@JeffMac2012 True. I had small collection of gamecube & gba games. It added up to $2,000. I only had about somewhere between 30-50 games. Pretty much all thriller with very little filler / licensed games.
Seeing lame ass pixel quad and retro rick dudes paying 100 bucks for ugly old used gaming shirts is embarrassing. They obviously have money cause the way they waste it is disrespectful to normal people who collect.
Don't care, because I buy games to play them rather than just using them as decorations and letting them sit on a shelf untouched like game collectors do, what a concept!
I buy games not as an investment I play them
My Retro collection is worth a lot to me. That some of its worth decent money is a bonus.
Ye
I think the next gen won't be interested in our childhood consoles, but I do think the gens after them will be for it's time in history, just like all other antiques. I think it'll leap frog in value.
Indeed I shall coin the phrase electronic antiques.
My parents bought a ton of old antiques when those things were in fashion in the '90s. They actually planned to open an antique shop after they retired but never got around to it. Some of the items are still worth some decent money but most are worthless baubles and furniture no one will ever use again. So much money thrown away on a useless venture that I will have to one day clean up and/or thrown in the trash. I collected comics. Same deal. If it is not sought and in perfect shape, no one cares and it is useless. You can't sell something if there are no buyers. Likewise, there are some games that are still worth something with plenty of buyers right now, but that will not be the same in twenty years. Young people won't be interested in older retro games forever.
They are not worthless. They are mine...Mine they are my treasures dont care if its worth pennies or 0's. it is my childhood. it is my hobby. it is my life...They will always be my treasures :D
My preciousssssss
@@odensjournal8373 I knew someone would comeback with that XD LOL i do sound like Gollum don't i? lol
@@Bird-Birdy-Love Went a little off the rails. Lol
We put value into what we want. I say buy whatever you want, and makes you truly happy. Whos gives a fuxk what anyone says, xause im sure they spend “lots” of money on things we would never spend on but i bet they justify it.
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Next-generation gamers often struggle with short attention spans, which means they might not have the same memorable experiences that older generations enjoyed during their childhood. Nowadays, kids are more focused on social media, where influencers shape their gaming habits. Popular games like Fortnite, ROBLOX, Minecraft and other online gaming dominate their playtime. While some may explore other genres, many stick to what's trending, showing less interest in diverse gaming experiences. Their constant engagement with social media and online gaming can lead to emotional highs and lows. This environment has contributed to a gaming culture where some developers create unappealing characters, clash with their audience, blame gamers for failures, and inject political ideologies into their games.
People who say they’re collecting games as an investment are just looking for justification for their out of control spending behavior. I’ve been there. Trust me.
So true. I have a decent collection, with rare games. But it's nothing you can't emulate. Even PS4 is getting there and you can just mod a PS4 and get the rare games anyway
Used games are always worthless because you use them. Sealed games especially niche titles are always worthwhile.
I've been selling games for 10x the price that I paid for them 15 years ago. So sometimes it's true
Welcome back to sanity my friend, we've missed you.
I might have like $6000 worth of video game stuff
All of my older consoles I modded to play either off a SD card or HDD.
I feel modders will be the key in the future as they always was.
I agree with all your points. Most notably, the collector based dwindling and the issue with liquidating a collection.
There’s this thing I call the “nostalgia gap“ which is pretty much the length of time between when a child owning a system, and that child becoming a middle-age adult with a disposable income, who wants to buy back his nostalgic memories. The result is a sort of floating gap between what sells well today and what the current console was 30ish years ago. The popularity in retro Nintendo game collecting has come and gone, with only a few hard-core collectors left going for a full set. Prices have come down in general. And more to the point, I think in 20 years, all the original owners will be 60+ years old and all these old “toys” won’t mean much to them anymore.
Certainly there will still be some people who collect them in the same way people now collect things just because they’re old or rare, but even that really depends on what current owners do with their collections. Selling is tedious and I think a lot will just be given away.
And that brings me to the other point; liquidation is hard. To get the most value you really do need to sell each game one by one. If you try to sell an entire collection, all at once, you’re going to lose massive amounts of value, probably at least half. That’s not to say you’ll get nothing, but considering how much a person probably paid to get each title individually, to fill gaps and what not, they may not even break even.
I’ve been selling my childhood collection, one by one and it has taken years. Literally years. And Ebay auctions take just a soul crushing amount in fees. Not to mention that coming up in 2025 Ebay will be sending 1099K forms to the government if you make more than $600, which means people will be forced to pay income tax on game sales now. Liquidation is a very real issue.
lol I was using dictation when I made this reply. And man it made some weird word guesses. Kudos to anyone who made it through the whole thing and understood what I meant ! Haha
It’s hard to say… I like that my collection is worth money, but it’s he number one reason I keep my collection of mostly 5th + 6th gen games is because I love having it and playing these games
Let's say it this way.
If the economy continues to get worse, more people will wake up that buying digital games is throwing your money away.
Having anything in your possession is money.
Another thing, I collect for fun and because I like it, not exactly to make money and this is at my discretion.
People will realize it is not worth buying old games in general. All you really need is a jailbroken system and you can have the same experience you would have with a physical game on its original console the way it was meant to be played. For example a Wii, a 3ds, a psp or a Vita, once jailbroken you can play ANY game on that console for FREE. No point in paying scalpers their highway robbery prices.
@@atomixfangif only everybody else do it
@@atomixfangI like the emulators and newly released retro consoles and all the ways to play old games. It saves ware and tare on the games and consoles in my collection. So I play NES/SNES games on super retro trio and keep my og consoles in box. I also have beat up og consoles for the little kids so they gave fun too.
I sell not only retro games, I sell Records and everything has a worth depending on what people are paying for it. What you have to watch however is the price of entry. For example if you paying market value for say a game like Earthbound and you pay $400 and let’s say demand goes down as well as the price, then you are losing money. Thats why I try to pay under market value and if I resell I don’t try to sell at market value I sell to where not only I make a profit but the buyer also has a margin of gain, that way everyone is happy. Thats why I separate what I buy as a collector versus what I buy as a seller.
You can make retro games a business if you know what you are doing and have knowledge/experience in running/operating a business. Some video games I bought as a kid and kept are worth 10x or more than what I paid. They are therefore an investment that when I sell it for cash is a good investment. Vast majority of games though tend to have low pricing and stay flat for years. Those games may be titles you couldn't give away for free. All you can do is perhaps bundle them with desirable games and sell as a collection. But, retro games investment only requires a few games to do extremely well to more than offset a dozen+ games that are worthless. So.. it depends. Have to be smart. Original consoles though will always have value. Twitch community needs them for speedruns / retro tournaments / etc. But, eventually CRT televisions will no longer exist and eventually original console systems will all be in unrepairable states.
I agree with the statement that the truth lies somewhere in the middle when it comes to emulations and original video game hardware.
I stopped collecting video games from the past this year as well as Hotwheels.
I see Emulation destroying original hardware honestly.
Yeah, it is a market bubble and it is long overdue to burst . This is what killed the Sears department stores .
I have found the worse place to get games is through vintage video game store's. I can get games on Ebay for cheaper than what they sell for like 10 to 20 dollars cheaper or more.
Shhhh the overpriced vintage stores don’t want to hear you say that
They are worthless to the overpricing leeches, leave Retro for the new gen you greedy people.
Investing in games at retail value hoping they go up is not a good idea, but spending $3 on $50 games at Goodwill or yard sales is always a good investment.
My take is that retro game prices haven't hiked up too much when you take inflation into account. Certain items are now worth considerably more, especially sealed games, but I shake my head when people say they have been priced out of retro game collecting. If you're out to collect the most rare and valuable stuff, then yes, the top end of the market looks different now. But that's what people want it to be, right?
As someone who likes j-rpgs like dragonquest... it's mad expensive. I'm priced out on experiencing the ds games.
I ended up buying dragonquest 3 hd 2d remake for the switch for $60... while the og gbc version is like $60-90
Now i'm waiting for dragonquest 1+2 hd 2d remake
Hopefully square enix brings 4 & up to the switch as well as Dragon quest monster games from the gbc & ds.
I've been relying on nintendo to port their older games slowly.
Picked up pikmin 1-4, metroid prime, bayonetta trilogy, advance wars 1+2... etc
@b4rs629 I've just compared the USA DS games to European DS games. Prices for European copies are much lower. It might be worthwhile looking at the import copies. Some Ebay sellers will send to USA if you ask.
I havent gotten into retro games for moneyary reasons, i've mainly started buying 6th gen games to ply the old games i once played when i was I was younger bug also to catch up on some of thecthings I missed out. I've seen gamd prices Rise and fall and i will not bother to try anc predict what will shoot up or not, honestly i would of never saw a new Okami coming so theres that.
If im going to sell anything its if I get another copy of a game I already have. I have Enter the matrix for PS2 and gamecube, i forgot that I had The Force Unleashed for Ps2 and accidentally purchasec another copy, this time the Red label. If anything I'll sell those games to get another game that I reallh want.
I "collect" games and consoles I want to play with not just display or anything else. I simply enjoy playing the games I buy. I do take good care of them and sometimes spend a little more time on them. Is this bad or am I all good?
If your collecting for personal enjoyment and not monetary value. It doesn't matter if the market crashes.
Selling games can take a lot of your time and some effort too. It's worth considering what your time is worth. About 4-5 years ago I had a massive house problem and needed cash, but the work was also going to take a long time between all the permitting and waiting for supplies. So it could be paid in phases. It worked out pretty well because I could just list something every day, or a few things every Sunday and just ship things out as they sold. I could spread out my time selling, and also turning it into cash. Having to turn a lot into cash quickly would be a huge hassle.
Personally, I hope retro games lose a lot of their value just so it becomes a cheap hobby again lol
Emulation has already caused retro game value to go down.
Agreed... selling a few things every week is the way to go. Although I do wish I would have been a part of the 2021 / 2022 Gold Rush 😂
@@RealHomeRecording I sold most of childhood gamecube collection because I knew the prices probably wouldn't go any higher.
Only games I kept was pokemon coloseum, animal crossing, and mario party 4.
Right now I'm enjoying buying ports of older nintendo / square enix games.
Advance wars 1+2, Dragonquest 3 hd 2d remake, Metroid Prime remastered, bayonetta trilogy, pikmin 1-4, etc...
Something is only worth something to someone else if they want it bad enough.
I think there will always be interest in older games and hardware, much because the fact you own nothing today and the newer the games and consoles the less ownership you have. old games you own and they can´t take it away from you or change it´s content. I think the biggest problem is to keep the hardware and media alive. the older it gets the more will die due to age. I have tons of old computers and hardware and I more and more have to open them up and repair them due to leaky capacitors for example. those who can´t repair stuff on component level will have problems with this
I have a niece who just turned 12 and I set up a Sega Mega Drive/ Genesis. For her And she loves it.
I think kids today will be nostalgic for ps5/xbox stuff, as weird as it might sound.
I also think it’s a matter of perspective. Someone who grew up on the NES and SNES will be nostalgic for those consoles, but have no interest in anything afterward. And then you have the other side of the coin, with people like me who grew up on DS/Wii who are nostalgic toward those consoles but they still respect everything that came before.
I only had nintendo growing up. So my nostalgia is heavily invested there. N64, gba, gamecube, wii, 3ds, & now switch.
I had a og xbox for a brief period, but it died along with my n64.
I missed out on a lot games like Halo... etc.
I've got a series x just to experience xbox games through gamepass.
I was happy to see most of the PS2 games I had to sell years ago were only priced in the teens for complete copies. There's only select titles for that system that are actually expensive. Same with OG Xbox. It's almost always been cheap except for the games people with TH-cam followings hype up and cause a spike for. In the 6th gen there were a lot of speculative buyers who would pre-order every RPG at Gamestop and buy like 2 copies, so games like GrimGrimoire that some people thought would be rare ended up being common. When I stream PS2 games on TH-cam, I barely get any viewers either. I think in general people just aren't that into 6th gen at the moment.
That's why I don't speculate in games. I just buy what I like, play it, & move on. I get perplexed when I see people who buy a physical copy & digital copy... only to keep the physcal copy sealed.
Lol, Nintendrew and his decked out basement. Channel name is Nintendrew.
I don't know me and a friend took trade in games to our local game store I had 2 games he had a boxful of games 😊 I got 3 times the amount as him. Shovelware sure is not worth anything but if u do it right your collection can be worth a lot
Yup. I only collect what truly interests me.. it's paid off into a valuable curated collection.
I had gba / gamecube growing up... and while everyone was beefing over xbox 360 & ps3. As a little kid I knew the gamecube games would be very valuable when I grew up.
I cashed out in 2020-2022. Only games I have left is pokemon colosseum, mario party 4, & animal crossing because they mean a lot to me.
I put that money into nintendo exclusives & sqaure enix ports on the switch & a few pokemon games on the ds/ 3ds.
Reprint announced on VGP, it’s going to be those nish titles that will go up and won’t get reprinted.
No real collector is doing it to make money. People will always care about something. I don’t like n64 or the ds but tons of people do.
Ya, I always dreamed of owning a n64 as an adult... I used to have it as a kid, but never bothered buying because it just doesn't have a lot of games.
The only games I own for ds / 3ds is pokemon.
Looking at it in monitary value is so sad. Its supposed to be a passion that you can pass along. I hope my collecrion is never sold. My kids play both new and old consoles. They will always be worth something to someone. My son plays on vr headsets, steam, gog, and and og hardware his first consol was one if my atari 2600s and hes playing silent hill 2 on the og xbox now. But buying games as a financial investment is crazy, its not supposed to be THAT kind of value.
It's artificial scarcity. The market is completely FAKE due to having no working resale market. GameStop went under, eBay taxes you, and you have to file over $600. Retro hardware DISINTEGRATES over time. The capacitors leak. The cartridge has save game BATTERIES that go bad. EVERYONE WILL BUY EMULATORS. Collecting every game in existence to cause artificial scarcity RUINED THE MARKET. You can't sell even if you WANTED to. SELL NOW BEFORE IT CRASHES. Otherwise, you're simply collecting for yourself, and don't care the market drops out.
they WILL care about old hardware but they will complain and not want to put the work and learning into playing it. They will NOT be worthless because of the value with them. It may not be the preference to play them for the newer generations though. And they would use emulation simply because its free.
Every generation will become more interested in emulation and have it as a option even if they collect retro, many people already do.
And they will value the ps4 generation since the ps5 is reliant upon its library.
I have a pc & series x... most of the ps5 games I want to play are on pc now. I wonder if it's worth buying a ps4
I made $4,000 this month selling my retro games
Last year I made $6,000 during December
I sell 7 days a week in a major city, I've made in total around $30,000 as a hobby lol
Don't listen to this guy and his little.predictions
Don't worry I am not listening to this guy lol. I have a use for my video game collection as I play them lol.
Ive sold my retro collections, because emulation and homebrew saves space
I don't know if this is necessarily true. I collect retro games, and have no nostalgic ties to them since I grew up with Gamecube, PS3, and PSVita. And I'm far from the only one. Also, the further in the future we get, the less common these games are gonna get. Regardless, I'll never sell my copy of LSD:Dream Emulator. It's Mine!
Good morning to you Y2k collector
Well.... I used to have a few gaming systems but they started breaking down over time and use.... Sega Genesis/CD, Playtation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Nintendo Game Cube, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Wii. In all Honestly I only have my Wii, N64, and PS3 left. The rest were impossible to fix or impossible because I just didn't have the money at the time to fix them, and I still don't. I don't even have many of those consoles anymore. What sold me on emulation was the PS5 fiasco when COVID hit and it was bad enough when the scalpers were buying all the PS5's with bots and so on, but what really pissed me off was the black dude who took a picture of his Eiffel Tower of PS5's he had in a small warehouse or possibly a storage unit perhaps and you know what? Call me a racist all you want but there's something about the African American community and their nasty attitudes to boast their.... possessions... and the dude wrote on the bottom of the picture he took of all the PS5's and he said.... "Fuck your feelings."
Okay, dude. That's fine. Jack up the prices on the PS5's 3-4x the amount of the original MSRP and then leave a comment like that with your tower of PS5's. That's cool, dude. I bought my first emulation system at that point in time and really man.... I haven't "looked back" since. And I have to say I was actually willing to pay that ridiculous price on Ebay a few years back for almost $2,000.00, but of course someone had to be a butt munch and BRAG their faces off and make sure to rub it in and that was the beginning of the end for new consoles for me. Okay dude.... you cheatd the system and used bots to buy a bunch of PS5's and your little tower of power of PS5's is impressive, but uh.... you wanna be a dick? Okay. That's fine, too. No more consoles for me. Thank you for making my life better. I paid a little over $200.00 for thousands of my favorite retro games compared to almost $2,000.00 for a brand new price jacked system. My first emulation system was 8 TB and I'm up to 12 TB now. It's all good, buddy. You do you, boo boo. Just had to be a dick, man. Good for you good buddy!
they treat it as a gold mine with those prices, i dont wanna pay them, and i wont pay them, pokemon games especially cant be worth the price they are tagged at because they are absolutely best sellers on each console they released on theres no purpose for the high price tags they have other than profit, and consoles? why are they hundreds of bucks no matter when they came out, yea working hardware gets rarer over the years but it cant be that rare to find a working ps2 or nes like those things are about the most reliable things out there and you telling me they worth 130+? come on, this stuffs getting insane, ill have to just emulate soon
systems breaking down too, ps2 needs new lasers on the slim models cause they were cheapy, some SNES are starting to fail now after being so old....getting to that point now.
I started emulating this year. It's been awesome. I buy ps4 and ps5 thats it. I made a ps2 fat with a 4tb hardrive, 3ds with hshop, dsi xl with r4 card, gamecube with picoboot, next is a vita. Emulating is awesome. I have everything running on native hardware no lag and all games at my finger tips. It's out of control.
@@ant9771 yeah people dont like emulation cause A. are afraid to emulate cause they think its illegal, B. Dont want to lose the clout and rank from buying thousands of dollars of video games on their youtube channel. and C. you dont get recognition when you can immediately download full sets of games on emulation within minutes.
meanwhile they dont realize how far its come and how much better it is in most cases, not to mention free..but its not about the games or gameplay to them its about the money..roms and emulators are worthless, and theres no addiction or dopamine hits for them doing emulation
@@BanditsBest686 They will all fail. Never chase money. Always someone more immoral, stronger, more greedy, you always lose when money becomes the objective. Im emulating for life. Eventually ill sell my ps4 and ps5 collection currently worth 20k and emulate those as well.
@@ant9771 i mean proof is in the pudding with all these rich youtube resellers, you cant emulate them or pretend to be them by buying all the same crap they have, they have a bought/paid for bank roll and or have way more money then you can fathom.
alot of them wont tell you that thats why they can afford to spend $1500 for a manual to complete some game or to do these full sets over and over
to me these people are just modern age drug dealers peddling stuff
Monster rancher 4 is my favorite rare game
I sold all my games before it was too late and bought everdrives with that money. Theres still some games I like to collect. Midnight club series because I was also a street racer. I also like to collect DDR game because it reminds of the 90s arcade and dance era. People are selling NES at crazy prices and I won't ever spend what theyre asking because theyre in fact not worth anything. I had a hard time selling my an Rgb moded n64 with everdrive x7 and most people kept low balling my paid for pieces in parts. Kids even some how legally gamble with football games on their phone and know how to invest when I was watching power rangers. lol The gen will be kids that actually enjoy the games but it won't be the kind of niche that makes those games worth anything.
To me they are priceless, even if they are worth $5 or $1,500. I haven’t been interested in selling, but in a way I hope you are right. I would hope many lower in price so I can buy more lol
Unless job losses hit the people with the collections... I don't think prices will go down. I only sold off my collection because of job layoffs during the pandemic.
@ yes I think you’re right. It’ll mainly come down to liquidating if the economy continues to get worse. I really hope it doesn’t come to that for more people, but I’m sorry that happened to you and you had to make that choice. I hope you’re in a much better situation now or will be soon
No one wants to pllay any of these old games just like nobody wants to play with a ball in a cup. As people, we've moved on. There's no appetite for pong, even if it was the first commercially available game.
I'd rather play older games I never played than new releases of modern games.
I'm about to play through final fantasy 1-10 + 12 on my switch... it's gonna be a long journey.
I don't think you know what the word worthless means. It doesn't just mean value of $0 lol. Also I don't believe $0 as I can sell my games online for whatever value the game is worth. Maybe I'll get $100-200 worth. Depending if they buy the game off me.
For retro gaming I play the games over & over again so they are worth playing.
I prefer to invest my money in real estate.
You can't completely say that yet they may change before it's all over even if they may not care could still become a trend again even if not very likely!
Worthless? No. Not worth much? Yes.
Old consoles will always be better then anything from the 9th gen onward including the Nintendo Switch because the Nintendo Switch is a 9th gen console.
Most of the games straight up suck there was a nostalgia factor for a few years but it's pretty much gone now
Man this is serious something needs to be done lol😂
Emulation is king on this economy.
lol how does RNG gamer have $150,000 collection? WTF does he have and that sounds a foul bet...he goes to sell that hes not getting $150,000 so whatever insurance policy he got must be some reeg.
yeah there will be a time once all the addicts, nostalgia nerds, and people who care about this stuff die off people wont care about spending thousands for video games anymore, the next generation is actually probably smart in a sense and wouldnt spend their life savings on video games...theyd just spend it on digital goods they dont own LOL
My collection if entirely sold is probably worth $50,000. It doesn't take much to end up with a super high $ collection if you have been collecting for a long time. I kept every physical game I ever had as a 8 year old kid. Gameboy Master Blaster Boy (loose cartridge and I believe I have the manual) but just loose cartridge is $100+. That is just 1 Gameboy game. If you were lucky to have a handful of games like that to start off your collection and took advantage of collecting a lot of games pre-pandemic.... You would be surprised just how crazy it gets. But, of course, just because something is worth $X amount doesn't mean you can successfully sell it all for that price.
@@JeffMac2012 lmk if you can make $50,000 of it tho...your going to sell each game 1 by 1 to make $50,000? Nah you gotta find someone else willing to bulk buy it, and when people bulk buy you dont get top retail dollar
surprise Jeff...this is what ive been trying to hammer into peoples heads
they buy all this shit under the promise itll go up in value but most of them learn when they go to sell it cause they need money, they are lucky to break even....
Unless its stuff they paid nothing for and held onto for all these years, then of course ull make some sort of profit since u have nothing into it or almost nothing, but it wont be 100% retail value
You would have to a ton of stuff and the stuff would have to be very rare. I have a ton of stuff as. Far as consoles and games but my pinball machines, the 21 I have is probably around 100k. No way a retro collection of games and consoles are 100k@@JeffMac2012
I know- who has 9 Neo Geo cartridges.
Lol. Mister FPGA all the way.
@@JeffMac2012 True. I had small collection of gamecube & gba games. It added up to $2,000. I only had about somewhere between 30-50 games. Pretty much all thriller with very little filler / licensed games.
Seeing lame ass pixel quad and retro rick dudes paying 100 bucks for ugly old used gaming shirts is embarrassing. They obviously have money cause the way they waste it is disrespectful to normal people who collect.
Nu-uh.. not to me. I love my old Nintendo stuff.
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Don't care, because I buy games to play them rather than just using them as decorations and letting them sit on a shelf untouched like game collectors do, what a concept!