unless it’s one of those niche “hidden gem” titles like Muramasa or Cursed Mountain or something like that… i doubt a good majority of Wii stuff is going to go up that much in value. there’s too much of it, and a lot of it is the kind of shovelware type stuff that may have some niche fans but don’t attract your typical collectors or anything like that. vs. Gamecube which didn’t sell as well and has a smaller library of games and a nice aesthetic design which are all things that appeal to collectors.
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Personally, yeah, Covid has me thinking about games as more of a “hobby” than I have in the past…15 years or so? Before 2020 I was playing like 2-3 games a year. I’ve played 45 this year, streamed almost every evening this spring/summer (craving some social interaction that was novel but soon got burnt out on) and now I’m buying games again. Cautiously! And consciously putting a limit of purchasing only a handful per year (if this desire keeps up/prices aren’t insane). There is a bit of that empty-hole-filling-of-late-capitalism going on but I’m self-aware enough to know that these Things aren’t any kind of replacement for the People that I can’t be intimately social with right now. It’s a satisfying little diversion, gonna try to keep it that way! But I do think it’ll be cool to have a library of like 50 of my favourite games in few years to show and share with friends as time goes on. Also kinda justifying the spending as “This game is the monetary equivalent of me going out for a weekend or two on the town when that was still a thing I could do”.
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i’ve played way too many of these darned things this year
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once again i am reminded that my life has barely changed due to COVID, other than the fear and anxiety bits. i love to stay at home and play video games.
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Just offering some color from how things have been going on the Magic TCG market: reserved list cards (cards that Wizards have promised won’t be reprinted) have jumped an astronomical amount post-COVID because it turns out the overwhelming majority of folks with Big Money can live their lives mostly undisrupted working from home, while many people who don’t have a massive amount of liquidity are selling off their collections to make ends meet. So lots of the “Magic investors” are just buying out everything they can to sit on it and drive up prices.
I don’t know how much of that is applicable to the games market because I don’t really pay attention to NTSC-U anymore, but aside from Square-Enix and Atlus PS2 games, I don’t think very many games of that generation are actively being reprinted and we may be seeing similar things happening at a much smaller scale.
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This is something I’ve been curious about. How common is keeping PS2/PS1 games in priduction? Squeenix definitely does with a few PS1 games since they have restocked them a number of times over the years.
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I just wish we could travel and play video games.
Im having an ill advised thanksgiving get together with the atomic family.
Cant wait to sit inside and play video games with my brother.
As far as I know, in North America, Square-Enix keeps printing everything that is Greatest Hits on PS1 and PS2 regularly, and Atlus keeps printing P3 FES, P4, Nocturne, and I think the two DDS games. Modern reprints of PS2 games have way more flimsy DVD cases that lack the memory card holder. I can’t think of anyone else who does it though.
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yeah i will say
missing the meetup this year fucken sucks
just wanna sit and watch my buddies play nocturne or something
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Huh, that makes sense because DDS always seemed way cheaper than I would have expected it to be.
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yeah this is exactly what i’m afraid is happening on an even greater scale now because of COVID than it was happening before. i feel like it’s already been happening with older retro games, particularly anything sorta niche, rare, or cult classic-y for awhile now - most people liquidating their collections while richer collectors sit on them and wait for the value to go up. ofc there’s plenty of stuff that doesn’t have the value that people think it does now, but that doesn’t mean that how much people are willing to spend/sell on this hasn’t gone up a ton across the board in the past ten years. i just am skeeved out by how much it feels like a part of the “rich get richer” thing while everyone else is expected to be happy with streaming and digital files and stuff.
i’m also worried about this kind of stuff happening for very limited release physical versions of albums (i.e. tapes and LPs) put out by poorer artists on niche bandcamp labels and stuff online (i.e. Orange Milk Records or something).
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This is a space where the egalitarian promises of digital production have clung on; it’s inordinately easier to play all these older games, even on original hardware, than it was maybe even while they were in production. I think piracy and the mod scene really has fixed a lot of this even as platform holders haven’t figured out how to loosen the license fees in such a way to reproduce what GoG started and continues to do.
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this is not true for everything i guess… but it is true for a lot of things. a lot of old consoles still stumble with being able to be played on newer tvs without either having to spend a lot of money or make compromises (and you can’t play things like light gun games). it is also funny to me how much easier it is to play Turok 1 or 2 now in a version that is superior to the original for example than it is to play Goldeneye. and that’s purely down to the copyright holders who don’t seem to have any interest in preserving/re-releasing a lot of stuff. or maybe even when they could if they wanted, there’s just not enough interest for them to put resources into preserving it (i would love a PC port of Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls for the N64 with a much better framerate but i seriously doubt that’d ever happen). i feel like GOG gets away with it because a lot of those games are slightly more niche and PC game culture has always had a bit more of an “open platform” attitude to it.
that said… god bless everdrives and Open PS2 loader and things like that. emulation is great too but having that one step closer to be able to play stuff on original hardware without needing the games just makes it one step closer to being the intended experience. also can’t really overstate how great of an investment buying a ps2 network adapter and a harddrive has been for me when it comes being able to play something like Kuon or Steambot Chronicles or other things that are super expensive and not likely to get re-releases/remasters/whatever any time soon (and i’ve never had much luck with ps2 emulation).
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I need to hear this to believe it because I rented this game three times and a decade later bought it for $7 but I still don’t understand how this got past a failed prototype
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I’ve never felt more like a sicko than when I realized I was six hours into a Saturday on an Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls bender at 12
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lmao i don’t know what to say. it was one of my favorite n64 games. i just love the rollercoaster/track with grappling hook vibe. it may be rough around the edges but it’s very unique! it’s kind of a similar reason to why i like Super Monkey Ball i guess.
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semi related, plan to reacquire my crt but wish i hadn’t thrown out my old scart cables and switcher that probably cost a total of <£10 at argos or something now these are expensive fetish items
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Isn’t the next hardware choke point Ps2 and PS3 controllers because nothing is more disgusting than an unused sony controller expelling all the human waste it has accmulated.
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I should get that train game the cover is so nice.
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