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Donkey Kong Country and Land Games Now Available/ VC games and Market Value
Pianomanfreak:
For those that want to know the Donkey Kong Country and Land games are now available on Nintendo eshop in North America btw the games came out yesterday. So what is your thoughts on it?
monjici:
That's great for people not owning old consoles, but I personally have no interest in virtual games.
If there would be a renting model, then I wouldn't mind virtual since you never own anything anyway.
TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: monjici on February 27, 2015, 08:45:30 AM ---That's great for people not owning old consoles, but I personally have no interest in virtual games.
If there would be a renting model, then I wouldn't mind virtual since you never own anything anyway.
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I'm with this line of thinking. I already have physical copies of these games, but it doesn't bother me when they make virtual releases as long as physical copies still exist. In theory, it should help game collecting prices to come down.
Arseen:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on February 27, 2015, 09:17:24 AM ---In theory, it should help game collecting prices to come down.
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Maybe not, as there has been things called emulators and roms long time now...
TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: Arseen on February 27, 2015, 09:44:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on February 27, 2015, 09:17:24 AM ---In theory, it should help game collecting prices to come down.
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Maybe not, as there has been things called emulators and roms long time now...
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I don't completely agree with that. Here's my line of thinking.
There are four types of games:
Common and popular
Common and unpopular
Uncommon and popular
Uncommon and unpopular
Uncommon games, whether popular or not will always have higher values because they are uncommon. This should surprise no one. Obviously the more popular games from will fetch higher prices, but that's to be expected as well.
Common and unpopular games tend to be cheap. These are usually your sports games and the like. Again, nothing surprising here.
That leaves common and popular games. These are games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country. Since these are common, they SHOULD BE cheap, maybe not as cheap as common and unpopular, but cheap none the less. However, these games are not cheap. They are expensive. The reason for that is because collectors AND non-collectors (people who just want to play the game) want to own these games. That's why video game collecting is so different than most any other type of collecting; the collectors have to compete with the people who just want to play the games.
Long story short (too late??) is that when you make common and popular games available on other formats such as virtual console, it should help bring the prices down, because the people who just want to play (the non-collectors) don't care about owning original physical games. That makes more room for the actual collectors. When I say that virtual games will make prices go down, I really mean that the prices for the common and popular category will come down. I would expect no change from any of the three other categories. I think virtual console has more of an impact on emulators and ROMs because some casual gamers might be turned off by the inherent complexities of those formats. Virtual console is easy and simple.
The last point I will make is that if emulators and ROM's didn't exist, the price of games (at least in the common and popular category) would probably be even HIGHER than they are right now, which means they in fact did help bring prices down.
Just my opinion. Sorry, got off topic. Is anyone even going to read all of that. ???