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| wiggy:
Exactly. Once something is known to be collectible, EVERYONE starts collecting, which completely defeats the reason something became collectible; it's desirable AND hard to find. |
| nbart711:
I think prices will fall in the future as working hardware becomes harder to find. This is especially true for the early disc based systems. The disc drives on many of the these consoles are starting to fail, and short of finding another console to pull parts from repair is becoming almost impossible. I have not seen any new disc assemblies for Saturn online in years. This is not so much a problem for cartridge based systems that seem to have a very long life (no moving parts), but is the sad reality for disc based systems. Even finding complete drives for PS1 has become very difficult. Hopefully, there will be future solutions available for repairing some of these aging consoles, but it seems that beyond converting the drives to read from SD cards, repairing the drives to use physical media is not the focus of the community at this time. |
| wiggy:
We'll eventually see clone disc-based systems I bet. |
| CMDLineKing:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 19, 2016, 08:27:50 PM ---Exactly. Once something is known to be collectible, EVERYONE starts collecting, which completely defeats the reason something became collectible; it's desirable AND hard to find. --- End quote --- It's collectible because you can collect it.. It's only valuable if it's desirable and hard to find. You can have a bottle cap collection that's worthless because the pieces in the collection are worthless. If you had desirable and hard to find pieces it starts to gain value, to someone anyway. I think we are all on the same page that the amiibos are over inflated in value as there is lots of supply. |
| CMDLineKing:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 19, 2016, 09:55:24 PM ---We'll eventually see clone disc-based systems I bet. --- End quote --- Hmm maybe, but it's still expensive to make moving parts and clone patented hardware. The gain for the pirates just isn't there yet. That and most disc based systems prior to PlayStation have suitable emulators online for free! Hard to beat that.. Heck, I ripped my old scratched PS1 Gundam Battle Assault to my pc so I could play it without it freezing up.. Was a ten minute job. If anything, I'd bet you'd see something "retron" like that is just running android and an emulator. |
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