5,000 shares of Super Smash Bros? Buy! Buy! Buy!
by Kevin Kelly 
{ Jan 26th 2007 at 8:15PM }
Have you ever wanted to go to a website where you can trade video games like stocks and bonds in an effort to get filthy rich (virtually)? We thought so. Well, now you can. The Sim Exchange is a site much like the Hollywood Stock Exchange where you can bank on the fact that a game will be a sleeper, a straight out hit, or a flop, and trade accordingly.What would really make this challenging would be if you could bid on if a game would hit its release date or not. Like Duke Nukem Forever. Right now Halo 3 is sitting atop the most valuable list, and Viva Pinata heads the most traded of all time. Strange, yet true.
Sign up, compete against others, and then reflect on the fact that you're playing a game which is a simulation that uses games as the nuts and bolts of the matter. It's like a Russian nesting doll that never ends.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neebs @ Jan 26th 2007 8:20PM
That sounds so awesome. Signup get.
Genius @ Jan 26th 2007 9:11PM
The only way I would see this as "cool" is if I can win exuberant amounts of money from it, then retire and play golf for the rest of my life.
Adam @ Jan 26th 2007 9:52PM
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/06/invest-virtual-cash-in-game-sales/ ?
busdriverneal @ Jan 27th 2007 1:38AM
soon ill be a stock market fat cat.. short selling some ps3 stock all the way to the bank!
johnny3000 @ Feb 2nd 2007 2:02PM
why cant i see this site? it keeps messing up on me.
jayen @ Jan 27th 2007 9:40PM
Viva Pinata was the most traded because a lot of people were sure that it'll be a sleeper hit and bought massive amounts of stock, and when the December sales figures were released everyoned cashed out due to the low numbers sold.