Which makes a little bit of sense to why it would make the mainstream news everywhere. It certainly gets attention in that "look how much people are paying for a First Edition original series Charizard!" sort of way.

I absolutely know mom looked at me and had that thought at the dinner table and wanted to say "YOU have a copy of Mario 64, you could be rich!" without any understanding of the conditions that would need to align for anyone to so much as think of valuing it that high at auction.

So it definitely strikes as understandably odd to a culture that has seen beta carts and trade show demos get passed around for sums less than that, along with a thousand other titles that could be sought after by collectors but wouldn't make the news and reach the ears of normies in the same way Mario does.