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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainToad, post: 74907, member: 12933"] I remember prices raising on everything pretty consistently. People seem to ignore it now 'cause if you look on Pricecharting, compared to the post-2020 spike, it 'looks' relatively stable, but for, say, Silent Hill 2 the price was around 12-15$ USD in 2013. [ATTACH type="full" size="1344x297"]25440[/ATTACH] But by November 2019 it was already up to around $30, so 2-3 times in price. [ATTACH type="full" size="1346x309"]25441[/ATTACH] I got out of physical collecting around 2015-ish because I already couldn't reasonably afford buying stuff, especially stuff like mainline Nintendo games which, despite being literally the most popular games ever, Super Mario Bros. 3 was still like $45 (CAD) from a store. I think it's also the games people are focusing on. I'm still unsure if the generational shift of games is the rise in interest of young adults buying the games of their childhood or speculators raising prices in anticipation of it happening. So in the early 2010s it was NES, SNES, Genesis that had the high prices with N64 and PS1 just starting to get crazy from what I remember. But like, if it was just general interest in games raising prices I don't see how the prices of games with millions and millions of copies like SMB3 would remain high unless there's massive hoarding. Or if people just don't resell their games anymore, once something enters someone's collection, be they a collector or not, it's almost permanent. I've had the kids of coworkers reveal they're into retro games, although I'm still pretty sure that's a minority. Like, how many people are actually retro gamers, really? I wish I could have knowledge of these stats. It's really hard to know things when we don't have any numbers to go off. Just prices and sales which contain a lot of information kinda' mixed in which makes it easy to pretend to know about things but without actually being sure. Like, how many sales are happening entirely offline? How many video game collections are just being offloaded onto their kids? I'm glad I switch to flashcarts, hacked consoles, emulation, etc. Honestly so much more convenient. I have my own personal 360/PS3 collection since I have a personal attachment to that era of games but that's about it and I'm still kinda' mad at the space it takes up. [/QUOTE]

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