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Earthbound prices to plummet?
wiggy:
LOL! ;D
scaredtowake:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on January 23, 2013, 08:42:06 PM ---Final Fantasy VII used to go for $70 for just the discs, now it goes for $30 because of it being released on the PSN.
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it dropped significantly before the release. i think the hype just died down a little bit, there was a big demand for FFVII for a while thanks to the remake rumors, Advent Children, and the PS2 and PSP offshoot games.
pumanchero:
Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64... Alas it won't happen either.
For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.
madrocsz:
I don't think they will plummet, actually I would more so see them going up even further lol.
Collecting has been weird lately, be it due to youngins getting a port of an old game and thinking retro collecting is cool after to get the original or that it is simply becoming quite the fad. While there were a ton of earthbounds produced it was not even in the same spectrum as FF7 which had 2 black label releases and greatest hits, if anything the game stayed around retail price long after but consider those greatest hits sold for 20$ brand new lol.
As someone else mentioned the SNES market is tricky, a good example look at syndicate , 20$ game till the current gen version comes out now its been doubled and some cases tripled. Chrono Trigger only went up when the DS version is dirt cheap, mass produced and arguably superior.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: pumanchero on January 24, 2013, 02:52:02 PM ---Personally, I think the culture of suing everyone for anything keeps Nintendo on hold with this particular game for its big amount of references to popular products from this side of the world. I don't see EB released for the VC intact in the future. It just won't happen.
Odds are better to see a 3DS release of Mother 3 with the work Nintendo did for the Nintendo 64... Alas it won't happen either.
For the price of a loose Earthbound cartridge you guys should buy a Super Power Pak or Everdrive or buy the Japanese release and get the eproms translated for $20.
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Nintendo (and almost EVERY large corp) are almost ALWAYS in some sort of civil litigation at any given moment. Threat of litigation prolly has nearly nothing to do with it. Plus, all those references were wiped out for the original SNES release (Coca Cola, Red Cross, etc), so no need to even go into that.