>Go on Ebay, try to buy any Nintendo game made before 2008
>They all range from $70-$200
>Most PS2 titles cost under $20
Why is this allowed?
Scalpers
Vidya hipsters.
Hipsters ruined everything
I miss picking up 64 games for 10-15$ a pop
The natural result of never making price cuts and burying every platform alive the moment the new one releases.
no matter how high the prices go, dumb hipsters will buy it with daddy's money
Most PS2 titles are worthless trash
>>340247370
If you believe that then invest in them and sell them to make easy hispter money.
Oh wait. You won't. This is because you're full of shit and you're talking shit.
>>340247389
As are most Wii titles.
>>340247349
>Buy Majora's Mask in 2007 for $15
>It's sold for $80 now online
>Bought FE Path of Radiance in 2009 for $10
>It's now $150+
>>340247150
PS1/PS2 were popular, and Sony believed pretty strongly in making even mildly successful vidya as widespread and cheap as possible. They had all sorts of levels of "greatest hits" and the like where they'd have tons of reprints at a much lower price, ensuring even if you came in really late you could still buy practically anything. In an era before digital they were kind of doing the digital thing in terms of non-scarcity and dropping the price over time. Collectors hated it though.
Plus, PS1 used CDs and PS2 used normal DVDs, so nothing special or pricey there. It also got pretty solid emulation, everything was ripped and cracked to pieces, so to this day there is zero danger of it ever fading thanks to easy, high quality piracy.
Nintendo stuff in contrast had proprietary media, often limited runs, less distribution anyway, etc. Plus a more autistic fanbase that actually cares about shit like collecting. So supply and demand anon.
Nintendo are the biggest whores of artificial scarcity in the entire industry, just look at how they've handled Amiibos.
>>340247150
Cart games back then generally game with a lot of little shit in the box. PS2 games generally came with the disc and the manual.
It's a lot harder for oldfags to piece together the complete clutter for say, an SNES game, than it is a PS2 one, so there's less of it to go around.
If you don't give a shit about anything but the game though, it'll be cheap.
>>340247150
>tfw realize the supposed rarest Wii game is Radiant Dawn
>>340247506
Wii has a higher ratio of good games though.
>>340248318
Lol. Well, in fairness it was an ok PS2 port machine.
>>340248201
The sad thing is it actually had a reprint.
>>340247150
You can blame it on the vidya collecting fad, they don't even play the games, it just sits on their shelf.
>>340248486
It did? The thing is still pricey as all hell though...
>>340247150
>get a Genesis to relive childhood
>go looking for the games I like
>All the good shit like Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and Gunstar Heroes is $50-100
>But hey, there's 12 billion copies of Sonic 1 for just a couple bucks
Thank God for emulation.
>>340248592
yeah, they made some more in late 2014/early 2015 or something. Of course it was probably only like a few thousand copies or something. Nothing that would actually help lower it's price.
>>340248318
I'm a huge Nintendo fag and even I know that that's not even close to true. Wii has some great games, but the PS2 library is legendary.
>>340248318
>>340248850
You're not a huge Nintendo fag then. You're clearly a shitposting Sonygger falseflagging.
>>340247150
oldschool video collecting craze.
which is sad because the people who build giant ass collections and try to sell them usually take a loss from how much they spent on it.
i would go for the highly sought after $$$ games that have a market price. you spend more money but it's a safe bet the game will retain it's value.
never try to collect more common games or highly expensive one of a kind games.
>>340247150
You can buy an awful lot of very good games for the PS2 for the cost as one of the few good games on the Gamecube.
You can get Ace Combat 4, 5, and Zero for a total of about 30 dollars. You can get Jak & Daxter, Jak 2, Jak 3, and Jak: Lost Frontier for about 30 dollars in total as well.
Super Mario Sunshine, which is certainly a good game, is 35 by itself. In pure cost vs entertainment value, go with the PS2.
Old Nintendo games are coveted by the same groups of people that make Zelda edition n3ds systems like 500 dollars, and made any amiibo ever cost more than basic MSRP. Hipsters fighting with Nostalgia Autists fighting with resellers. If you just want to play vidya, its no place to go.
>>340248842
That would explain the "new" stock of it on amazon for $140 CDN from "Nintendo of Canada."
>>340248318
That may be true, but the PS2 probably had more good games than the Wii had games.
>>340247150
BECAUSE NINTENDO IS SO LE COOL AN NOSTALGIC XDDD
>>340249264
"Check it out guys, I'm playing Ocarina of Time on my N64! I'm such a nerd XD"
"Why is this jerk blocking off the path? Where do I get the sword? Man, these old Nintendo games sure were hard, huh?"
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>2010 CE
>have a sizeable library of Gamecube games
>decide to collect a full set of NA GCN games for the hell of it
>prices go through the roof
>the only games I don't have are super common but overpriced 1st party shit (Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Party, Pikmin, etc)
at least I got Gotcha Force when it was worthless
All worthwhile ps2 games have hd remasters or had reprints in the past few years. Nintendo has the virtual console so I don't know why that hasn't had the same effect. They need to rerelease GameCube games there, maybe they're saving it for the nx
>>340250543
Gamecube emulation is near perfect and a GBA everdrive is in the works.
>>340247150
>Most PS2 titles cost under $20
Oh, I wonder why?
>>340247150
Prices are based on collectors and people wanting to relive their childhood at whatever the cost.
Also hipsterfgts.
>>340252123
>Taiko
>Parappa
>Shovelware
>Lucky Star(???)
>>340247150
Because for no reason nintendo stops making games for a lesser generation the moment the next gen is out.
I kid you not, I had to go to 6 different game stops near my house to find a copy of pokemon white. The game came out maybe 5 years ago and its already so god damn rare because nintendo has just stopped making DS games for some reason.
It also has to do with the fact that everyone else played PS and xbox at the time these titles were insanely popular and not m-muh hipsters. It's because of the fact that these games are actually rare because nobody fucking has themI wish nintendo still made games for lesser gens
>>340252123
Buzz was really fucking popular in my country for some reason though.
>>340252536
>I wish nintendo still made games for lesser gens
IIRC they actually used to. I remember N64 games still being made even after the Gamecube was already out. The same went for Game Boy Color, when the GBA had been released already.
>>340249003
Who would collect video games to make money? Lol, people are complaining about high prices when in reality a lot of retro stuff is sold at like 1 tenth of retail.
>>340252123
clever bait, but I'm not falling for it
>>340252123
>DDR
>Guitar hero
>shovelware
okay then
>>340247349
Damn, hit some flea markets son.
I got all this for $40
>>340252926
Resellers mainly. They know nothing about games and see dollar signs when someone had nes games for a few bucks. Notice though, they will not touch anything post 5th gen that isn't nintendo or a Mario game at the least.
>>340254483
For real dude, I get some good shit from em
>Anyone else makes game
>Game is throwaway, and not worth keeping past the first playthrough AND/OR Game is expected to sell millions, so millions are made to clog the shelves
>Games are quickly returned to store to pay for the next iteration
>Ergo, hundreds of copies remain available at all times
>Not rare = low demand = low price
>Nintendo makes a game
>Game is good, and supports multiple playthroughs, and isn't relegated to an iteration-based release schedule. One Mario Kart per system, not one every single year
>People are more apt to keep those games, because they know they won't be obsolete inside six months
>Game rarely re-enters circulation
>Rare = High demand = high price
It's not fucking rocket science. It's not a fucking conspiracy, and Nintendo aren't the jews in this instance.
Good games are harder to come by because they're good. That's all there is to it.
>>340252536
Still made nes games until 1994, a good 3 years into the SNES life and a system that was 9 years old at the time.
Gb was supported until 2002, a good 13 years after it launched.
>>340247550
Path of Radiance was already like 60 in 2009 you just got lucky.
>>340247150
>Go to local market
>dude always selling N64 consoles and games dirt cheap
>Console for 40$~
>Most common games for $20~
>If he sells something like Mario Kart/Golden eye, he'll restock it by next weekend
Dude is a legend
>being a spergelord kid
>always looked after my stuff.
>come home one day
>entire SNES collection was sold for $300 (which is mum talk for free)
>ask for the stuff back or my money
>get yelled at
>mum logic: I gave you the money to do the chores to get the money to buy the stuff, that means I own it
>I pay the bills so I can do what I want
>o-ok
Admittedly, my parents bought the console and a few games for me as a gift
>years alter
>junkie sister moves back in for some reason
>week later all my video games disappeared while I was at class
>well maybe you sold them?
>asdfhgsdgjhsdfghkjsdfkg
My entire fucking childhood when.
Hell even nowadays my mother likes to act entitled to my entire being because of all the money she spent raising me, and when that fails she pulls the old "I MADE YOU" card. Then they wonder why I don't like visiting.
>>340257156
Also fuck those fucking stickers they put on the box!
>>340247349
Anon, you damn well know the last time that happened was when Funcoland still existed.
