I collect and play a lot of old games (PS1, N64, Gameboy, and Ps2 are the main ones I buy for), but the prices on retro games are rising rapidly. Many games have doubled or tripled in price since around 2020. I like to play PS1 RPGs, but a lot of them are worth way more then I'm willing to spend nowadays. I usually prefer original hardware over emulating, but I've just been priced out of most systems (PS2 is about the only one that I care about where the price is still afforable, but even that is way up). Do you guys think this is a bubble that will pop, or are these insane prices here to stay?
(P.S. if you don't belive me look up any major game on pricecharting.com and look how the prices have spiked since 2020)
With the current trend of games being less in depth than their counterparts made decades earlier… no. You can’t even get a copy of Ncaa football 14 for under $200 and in all likelihood even with the “new” NCAA coming out this July, I expect it to be a straight madden clone and lose any of the gameplay that made the game special like the coaching carousel. So since games are just prettier graphically, but uglier on the inside than those made a decade ago the reality is that older games will be a higher value. This is also why every modern system has a retro gaming collection to stream built into their “plus” plan.