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Originally Posted by Twisted
i agree with the majority of your statements twistedsymphony..but how many of us have the patience to wait around 20 or 30 years?.:p..plus in 20 years time majority of disc based items will be obsolete if not long gone..30 years out, our current game systems won't even be compatible with the current gen tv's at that time..so even if you found that "old relic ps3 from 25-30 years ago"...chances are it' won't work,..if you need parts, there gonna be hard to come by, and how would you ever play it?..those hdmi cables outlets will be prehistoric,.etc..disclaimer:i personally love collecting..it's fun..i'm just playing devil's advocate here..with what i am sharing is what people have said to me, or i have read in the media...so i'm not trying to belittle anybody's collection..i'm also a sealed collector,..just for purpose of debate..and just do'ing a little thinking about how much are games will truely be worth?..in an age of all digital media on the horizen, and remakes in HD being churned out left and right, imagine the state of digital downloads 10 years from now, let alone 20..and imagine HD in the next decade..our stuff will be left behind,..perhaps..we live in the moment?.lol.and it gives us joy..but some here..are buying games, and getting them graded, thinking somebody would want to play it..but are going to pay a gazillion dollars for theres, when the new hd remake, will be 10x better at that time, and cost 1/100th of what we feel our editions will be worth..so it would be very very hard to put a value on our editions and find a market for them in the future..again, i know some collect and use for personal enjoyment, besides that, there are people here collecting thinking it will make them money in the future..and others like me..who just needed a hobby and found some really neat looking editions abroad..that were missing out on here in the US  |
I understand what your are saying Twisted, but I have to agree with TwistedSymphony
Most of us collectors aren't going to just wait the 20-30 years for our items to appreciate for that fact alone, it will just happen naturally, as I'm guessing for most of us, this is a lifelong passion - so it's not like we will just keep a hold of items in the hope that they will be worth more - it's that we will still have them to look at and play with and display and basically just enjoy for the 20-30 years, and if they go up in value, then great, but if they don't then, so be it.
Who's to say that they will be obsolete? Look at the retro consoles we have now, Ataris, SNES, N64, etc, our current gen consoles are the N64's of the future - if people are interested in retro consoles now, it shows that there will no doubt be people interested in the retro consoles in the future, and will find some means of playing it, such as owning older model televisions, (if HDMI ports
do become obsolete, but I don't really think they will, but I could be wrong)
And yes, HD remakes may come out in the future, but that doesn't mean that in all cases the originals lose all the value that they have gained, take Zelda for instance, remakes have been made of some Zelda games, Ocarina of Time for instance, for the 3DS, but the older-gen N64 copies still sell extremely well online, and are very sought after (especially when still in boxes, mint condition and even more so, when sealed).
I feel like I'm rambling, but I'm just trying to show that in the future, chances are, people will look for older editions/consoles, etc - just as we do now, so even though we cannot determine a future price or determine how sought after certain items will be, it is more likely than not that our items, if kept in mint condition, will appreciate in value anyway.
My editions will certainly appreciate, maybe not to others, but their value to me will keep rising - hence why I'll never sell them - as they are something I hold dear to me.
*Okay V, shut up now*
Haha, I'll leave it there!