Everything is worth what the buyer will pay. If there’s a collector out there who will pay $20k for a shrink wrapped Chrono trigger, even though he could just buy the steam version for $15, then it’s worth $20k. You might think it’s dumb, and I agree, but it is what it is.
In retrogaming’s specific case though, it’s been completely manufactured in the last few years. A few famous or semi-famous idiots got in touch with con artists, and made some bogus transactions with massive media coverage. They engineered a speculative bubble.
And they managed to fuck up the retrogaming market for everyone, even those actually just looking for a bit of nostalgia to plug into their old consoles. Suddenly it was all assholes trying to scam each other and even common cartridges in a subpar state had their prices skyrocket.
Everything is worth what the buyer will pay. If there’s a collector out there who will pay $20k for a shrink wrapped Chrono trigger, even though he could just buy the steam version for $15, then it’s worth $20k. You might think it’s dumb, and I agree, but it is what it is.
In retrogaming’s specific case though, it’s been completely manufactured in the last few years. A few famous or semi-famous idiots got in touch with con artists, and made some bogus transactions with massive media coverage. They engineered a speculative bubble.
And they managed to fuck up the retrogaming market for everyone, even those actually just looking for a bit of nostalgia to plug into their old consoles. Suddenly it was all assholes trying to scam each other and even common cartridges in a subpar state had their prices skyrocket.
good point, I wasn’t aware of any of that