Rp me on video game collecting as an investment

True. I had some rarities that I sold for about $250. Kinda crap, half a lifetime of hodling for only x3-x4, without accounting for inflation. Meanwhile the most expensive game I ever bought (at the time, and to this day) is down like -85% due to not being rare

gaming is hyperpozzed
gamers have always been the largest cucks

Late (?) 1990s-2000s everyone was already screaming to boycott EA, and nobody ever stopped buying their slop

One of my first redpillerinos

Plastic case collecting is not really an investment imo. The cases remain in good condition due to their structure, unlike older console games like N64 which are in cardboard. Cardboard boxes are a lot easier to scratch and the paint chips quick, which makes collecting them more valuable as a mint condition box is actually rare.
Anything newer than the GameBoy Advanced or anything in a plastic cd case I would recommend not investing in.

This is true. Only the people with good taste are going to succeed at collecting. For example me, I collected Nintendo and SEGA stuff back in 2010 and now my holdings have increased a lot. Still, buying crypto or the stock index would have outperformed this by a lot. I would say game collecting is more safe, IF you're not a retard about video games, which many people are. The guy who said Playstation games will never be worth much is mostly true, there are some outliers but for the most part there were never any real gems on Playstation. Many of the best Playstation games were actually mid as fuck like Crash Bandicoot.

Plastic DVD cases get a lot of shelf wear, making it difficult to find a good condition one. This is why Gamecube and DS collecting has been growing so much.

I bought a Virtual Boy on ebay complete in box in 2010 for $100, now it's worth like $700. Bought a Master System CIB from a pawn shop back then for $60, it's worth ~$500 now. Also picked up a Game Boy Micro CIB back then for $50 that's now worth $500 as well. With that being said, that's waiting over a decade for a measly 10x and only because I have kino collecting intuition. Most people didn't get a 10x even waiting longer.

I've been collecting physical switch games, those will pay off massively in a few years. Most retards bought digital, when the eshop gets taken down these physical games will be like gold bars.

kek my friend has a big collection and did good with his virtual boys. Amazing how that piece of red shit has managed to increase in value

Good idea you are the only person hoarding Nintendo switch games

I think the least popular thing will become the most valuable

Takes 20-30 years to start getting value and can be very unpredictable.

The two biggest things for value are rarity and desirability.

Wouldn't it be better to just toss that money into BTC?

pic rel fetches for $600+

100%
Every game/console/whatever that's currently worth a damn was a fucking piece of shit nobody cared about. Virtual boy is one of the best examples

except some rare exceptions like earthbound which was a masterpiece that nobody cared about
yes

its not an investment, its a hobby, you wont get any money out of it, and if you're planning on holding them out and selling them in some years
at BEST you would get your money back, but considering inflation you would still be down a couple thousand, its best to go for safu investments, like unicorn.meme airdrops or bot trading my dude

They can last a long time. I had to replace my PS1 laser assembly in 2015 when it was nearly 20 years old and after playing probably a thousand hours or more of games on it. I don't think in another 50 years people will really care about playing these (PS1-PS5 era) video games aside from viewing them as an "artifact".

I bought a Virtual Boy on ebay complete in box in 2010 for $100, now it's worth like $700.

I used to think this was impressive, but the blackpill is that I was too busy thinking like this with video game hardware instead of finding out about BTC instead.

in two more generations physical games will no longer exist. No more supply entering the market.

Why are you expecting the eshop to get taken down?

why wouldn't it? They shut down their other shop. you know theyre not joking about the "you will own nothing" thing right?

Some, yes.
Can't find the game Azura's Wrath so if you can, hold on to that.

Many of the best Playstation games were actually mid as fuck like Crash Bandicoot.

Cope. Why did you pick Crash Bandicoot of all things? What about Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 1-3, Final Fantasy 7-9, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, etc?

Bros is disc rot real

fortunately the boredom passed after about 10 minutes

This. It's just maturing. I used to play videogames 20 hours straight as a kid. I recently bought an emulator with 100k games. I played it for like 30 minutes since I bought it 6 months ago.

Hope you like bagholding for 30 years for a possible 5-10x on a product you'll end up paying fat premiums to sell.

There is a right and wrong way to do it.

Wrong way
Going to stores or buying indivual games on ebay for the full market price. You are at the mercy of

Right way
Setting alerts on CL, FB, eBay for bundle deals, keeping an eye out at auctions, estate sales, etc. It's more involved but you find a few of these deals and pick out the best stuff, then flip the rest and reinvest that money into more bundles. It's not uncommon to pay $50 for a game system with games, and just one game by itself makes your money back. Look for guys going to the military, girlfriends selling their ex's stuff, and rich kids who get bored of gaming.

t. turned $100 into about a $4,000 retro game collection a few years ago

I will add, now is NOT a good time to buy rare games and hope the value increases. COVID is over and the gibs are over for a while.

The move now is to buy up bundles from stores going out of business, boomers dying, etc. Then sell off a portion to make your capital back and baghold the really good stuff

really helpful anon thanks

I was thinking about doing this with the Nintendo WII, what do you think will happen with WII games moving forward now that we are approaching 20 years since the console launch?

I'm thinking this might be a good time to accumulate.

Nothing past ps2, perhaps a handful of ps3 titles are worth playing, let alone collecting

Megaman 5 cost like $55 in 1990 dollars.

The price of even premium NES carts has gone down over the years.
Kirby is an amazing NES game and I picked it up for $8. Pinbot is still the best pinball game, $10, Faxanadu (I cringe to say this) is the Dark Souls of the NES, $12.

You can also emulate all of these things with a comfy filter on top instead of your shitty 55 inch TV showing you all the squares as bright as the Sun.

The only way to make money from this ahit is to have a time machine for Earthbound carts and even then you're better off just selling beats by Dre to teens.

megaman 1 can go for $1k
youtube.com/watch?v=GsXEqfDL40k

At least 10 years too late