NES collection fetching thousands on eBay

"Same goes for VC games. A lot of them are over priced in my opinion (pretty much all the first generation NES games except Ice Hockey), but if some one is willing to pay the price, then Soccer was actually worth $5."

This is only true to an extent, for several reasons. First, is the obvious that the VC game may be an unknown to the person buying it... they take a chance and pay the $5, but it actually sucks and is not really "worth" the $5, but actually more like $0-$1. This happens in the world all the time.

The second is that just because you can sell it for an amount, doesn't mean that it's "worth" that amount in an overall market (and not just to an individual). Nintendo could charge $30 for some of their games, and a few people would buy them (and actually, they've done this several times in the portable market to great affect simply because people wanted portable versions of their games). Just because a few people buy them, however, doesn't mean that's what they're "worth", for either the consumer or the business. When Nintendo was pricing these, I assume they did what every business tries to do and maximize their profits by finding the maximum price along the price/sales curve (based on the simple formula that as price goes up, sales go down, and vice versa).

I, and others, feel that they missed the mark, because we feel we would be willing to shell out an overall greater amount of money for slightly cheaper games than we're willing to shell out now. For instance, I would maybe be willing to spend $10 on two SNES games, but now I'd probably choose between the two and spend only $8. You could argue that they'd be losing money with only charging $5 because they've sold you twice as much stuff for only $2 more, but it really depends on the actual "cost" of the virtual items. Development is long over, so they "cost" virtually nothing to get to you, so even $2 would be an increase in profits for Nintendo. Nintendo should do an experiment and for a week, reduce their prices by $2-$3 for everything and see how it sells and if their profits for VC games that week go up, stay the same, or go down.

No NES game is worth a thousand dollars. I'm pretty sure Bubble Bath Babes is the most expensive and it only goes for a couple hundred bucks. Right now on eBay there is one result (at an eBay store) with a $300 buy it now. It has been offered twice and not sold yet. This means that right now it's not worth $300 to anybody. It's the Japanese version, called SOAP PANIC, and comes with the Famicom-to-NES converter.

Nintendo World Challenge routinely sells in the thousands of dollars

This auction doesn't include Nintendo World Challenge.


Or Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!



The only deal here is in the combined shipping.

"11. Its one thing to collect cartidges, and quite another to collect shit to fill up virtual space."

A game cartridge is a breakable hunk of plastic and metal. A virtual game cannot be lost or broken. The former might be more valuable as a collector's item, but the latter is more valuable as a game.

His collection is missing a US version of Stadium Events, one of the most difficult-to-find licensed NES cartridges. The listing has the cart, and there's a picture of it, but it's the less common(and less valuable PAL version. I'd figure a good condition loose copy to run about $400-$500.

There are a few HTF($100+) games in the lot, like Snow Bros., Flintstones 2, and Bubble Bobble 2, but even their inclusion isn't reason enough for a lot of loose carts to go for so much. Even if one were to factor in time spent hunting these games down individually, it still doesn't add up. I can literally drive about 10-15 miles from my house and pick up 40% of those games at one store, and pay an average of less than $10 a cart. If this were a boxed/complete collection, I could understand a high price. But it's not.

Hope the dumbass that wins the auction enjoys his $22 copy of Duck Hunt. x_x

So whether stealing is okay depends on who you're stealing from? Got it.

Nice!

It's up to $220,000 now. Look at the bid history. It's fake as balls.

Modded Xbox + emulators FTW.

It connects to the TV, supports save states, and makes the Wii VC or this guy's $15,000 collection a moot point.

$200,000+? Oh my, hooray for bogus bidders.

One thing I'm not sure anybody mentioned in here: Why would a serious collector want to buy cartridges only, without box or manual?

yeah....

this is now up to 250....THOUSAND!!!

I feel sorry for the person who is buying this, would you like for the same price...

a really nice:
house,
car,
670 old video games (only bout 100 would be good)
or 1/8 of a stratavarious violin XD

Oh god, it's up to $250,000. This one's coming back. There's no way it'll actually get that price. Now people are just fake bidding.

Looks like the auction is gone. Don't know if eBay pulled it or the seller did. I guess he got alot of aggro over selling such a big collection.

Well, I've been collecting for a few years and since the wii came out I have noticed a decline in values, but... I have a collection of sealed NES games, titles like, Mario 1, Duck Hunt, Mega Man, Metal Gear, Metroid, and others... These are unbelevably rare so for me as a collector I'm not really bothered by the value debate as I'm not planning on selling anytime soon, but just to say, the real deal will always be worth more as it's original 80's retro memerobilia, and it was huge...