Will there ever be a TG16 price crash?

[xelement5x]

To its credit... Wii U has some fun stuff

Very true, DK Tropical Freeze is really the only current gen thing I am playing and it is a blast. 

[Otaking]

I don't really like modern games, but I have liked some stuff on iPad and DS/3DS.

[Necromancer]

And Justin Bieber sold tens of millions of records. Just because it's popular doesn't make it good.

To those millions of fans, it most certainly is good.  Whether or not you personally agree isn't relevant.

His argument was that people are buying old games solely because they have no other option (everything new sucks), which is obviously untrue for the vast majority of retro gamers that are buying and playing new stuff as well as old; the reality is that retro games are popular for a variety of reasons (nostalgia, hipsters, etc.) that have nothing to do with the quality of new games.  For the sake of argument, let's say the Retro VGS takes off and there's dozens and dozens of top notch retro style games made for it every year.  Do you honestly think the price of old games will tank because there's finally something worth playing?

[tool]

Do you honestly think the price of old games will tank because there's finally something worth playing?

yes

[GreatBlueSwirlof99]

Do you honestly think the price of old games will tank because there's finally something worth playing?

yes

Yes, one of my friends bought a Genesis only because and I quote "all the new games are just sad, I mean look at SNES and Genesis they had true talented developers making games now we EA making loads of shitty games and a FPS craze which I don't like !Only if I lived in the 70/80/90's!"

[Gredler]

Do you honestly think the price of old games will tank because there's finally something worth playing?

yes

Yes, one of my friends bought a Genesis only because and I quote "all the new games are just sad, I mean look at SNES and Genesis they had true talented developers making games now we EA making loads of shitty games and a FPS craze which I don't like !Only if I lived in the 70/80/90's!"

Hearing this makes me worried about who's buying all these games, and what will happen when they bore of them. Hopefully their "collections" re-integrated into the market, but I worry that  a lot of the people buying these games are so young that their games will be another toy to be tossed in the trash when they are tired of the games. I imagine a lot of the people inflating the prices are rich parents trying to appease their crying child who wants all of these games. Maybe there will be another glut of games available in yard sales 5 years from now when these kids move out and get a family of their own.

[Necromancer]

yes

Then you're an idiot, but we already knew that.

[chemdream]

I've been kicking myself lately.

When the original playstation was released, I traded a Duo w/ 2 controllers, tap, Ys1/2, Bonk 1-3, Monsters Lair, Devil's Crush, and a whole lot more for an (almost) new PS1 w/ 2 controllers, mod chip and a few games...

FML. Seemed like a good deal at the time!

[Otaking]

I've been kicking myself lately.

When the original playstation was released, I traded a Duo w/ 2 controllers, tap, Ys1/2, Bonk 1-3, Monsters Lair, Devil's Crush, and a whole lot more for an (almost) new PS1 w/ 2 controllers, mod chip and a few games...

FML. Seemed like a good deal at the time!

That was a really good deal you got, I paid a fortune for my import PS1 when it was released, at that time the Duo was worth a lot less.
In the grand scheme of things all this TG-16/Duo being worth big bucks is a relatively new thing.

[Lost Monkey]

I've been kicking myself lately.

When the original playstation was released, I traded a Duo w/ 2 controllers, tap, Ys1/2, Bonk 1-3, Monsters Lair, Devil's Crush, and a whole lot more for an (almost) new PS1 w/ 2 controllers, mod chip and a few games...

FML. Seemed like a good deal at the time!

That was a really good deal you got, I paid a fortune for my import PS1 when it was released, at that time the Duo was worth a lot less.
In the grand scheme of things all this TG-16/Duo being worth big bucks is a relatively new thing.

I traded 2 new sealed Duos for an import Dreamcast and a couple games in November 1998.  It was worth it.

[Otaking]

I've done so many, many trades in the 90s it's hard to remember.
But I used to get each new console when it was released in Japan, through trading or buying. This is when consoles were released months or years in Japan before other regions. I remember I picked up an import Saturn on it's Japanese release with Virtua Fighter, then over the next couple months no new good games came out. I was generally disapointed with the Saturn so swapped it with someone for a Core Grafx II and Super CD Rom unit with Cho Aniki, Image Fight II, Super Darius II and a stack of Japanese PC Engine mags. The guy gladly did the swap and thought I was completely nuts as the Saturn was still newly released.
Saying that in the end by the end of it's lifecycle the Saturn turned out to be a great console, with loads of great 2D shooters and fighting games.

Very similar I swapped a Neo Geo AES for a PC Engine Duo, when the Duo was first released. The guy I swapped with said he thought the Duo was rubbish and thought I was crazy for swapping it for an AES.

[sirhcman]

The guy I swapped with said he thought the Duo was rubbish and thought I was crazy for swapping it for an AES.

Well at least he was honest with you!

[xelement5x]

I traded 3 sealed duos for a reacharound from richard simmons. Best trade ever!

I bet that really charged your crystal.

[Lost Monkey]

I traded 3 sealed duos for a reacharound from richard simmons. Best trade ever!

You must have just beat me to him, because when I got there, he said, "The price just went up, sweety! I just got 3 Duos for 3 seconds of work!"

[esteban]

I traded a mint-in-box PCE LT for XaviX.