http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-World-..._Games_Games&hash=item41546ad7e3#ht_660wt_982 $9999 I wish I'd the money for this :crying:
I saw this same auction a month ago. Had no idea it's still up. With how expensive the cart alone is it seems like it'd been sold by now.
Is it really worth that much though? I'm not trying to sound insulting or anything, I'm just not that big of a Nintendo collector etc. I know some games can go for a huge some of money. Just wondering. . . -Disjaukifa
I don't want to rant, but it is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it. At least to those people. Neither me nor you are going to pay $10k, but people have paid even more before.
I've heard that saying before. I remember earlier this year when a copy of Air Raid with box went for 31K back in May. There aren't many games I'll through that much money at, but there are a couple. Like you said its all on what people are willing to pay . . . -Disjaukifa
Wait, WAT? $10k for a GREY cart? I thought it was like $3-4k for a grey cart and $10-12k for a gold cart. That's bananas, I didn't know they'd gotten that expensive.
Whenever I hear numbers like that I can't help think of the comic collecting boom and bust. I wonder how long that valuation will survive.
Comics are coming back. Even in the last ten years I've seen a rise in value of all my comics across the board. I don't think videos games will be a bust as much, I see the value dropping and many people complaining about it but there will always be the select group of people collecting rare video games and prototypes. Lets face it, all those PS3 Debug/Test units that are going for $800+ in a couple of years I can almost guarantee you I'll be able to get one for 250 ~ 400. Games are different, the value seems to go up, especial tournament games and prototypes. -Disjaukifa
Yeah, and if that group dwindles in size the bottom falls out of the market and value for prototype/rare carts decreases. I'm not saying that's going to happen (I think it's very unlikely in the near future, anyway) - just that in practice this stuff only worth big numbers when there are people competing against each other to own it. When there's collective desire for something and there are deep pockets to go along with that prices can get incredibly high; just look at the art collecting world. Generally I'd say that, in most cases, beta software value goes down just the same as dev hardware. There are two issues here. The first is that disc-based protos, especially from the last gen, are usually pretty cheap even when "new" unless they're unreleased or from a very popular franchise. Older cart-based prototypes are much more difficult to find, partially because the carts themselves were expensive so tended to be reused frequently back in the day. There's also the legitimacy issue (proto discs are very easy to fake, especially since many legitimately come on generic blank media anyway). Bottom line, if prices seem cheap at the moment for PS2/PS3 betas etc, the truth is that they've been that way for a long time. The second issue: you mention the dramatic drop in price of current dev hardware once it's no longer current-gen. To the right person a proto of a modern title could also be worth lots and lots of money if sold prior to release, and would devalue dramatically after a while. Thing is, you don't tend to hear about these sales. While Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo all dislike their dev kits slipping out the back doors of dev houses, it doesn't really hurt them. A pre-release copy of a game making it into the wild months before retail release, though, is a truly huge deal for a software company. In this latter instance it's not just a case of your ebay auction being taken down if you're caught trying to sell it, you will catch proper heat. This has happened here before now and it caused an almighty shitstorm.
I can see where you are right about the difference between cart based systems and disc based systems. Discs are so cheap that people are just going to burn a new one where as cartridges have to be made. Honestly I would love to have a PS2 and PS3 Test units, but honestly I'm not sure what I would do with them even if I got them. I have a DTL-H1001 which I personally think is an awesome device but I'm only going to use it to try writing a simple PS1 game. Not even complete sure I'm going to keep it, its neat and can play any region and backup games, but if I really want to play a game, I'm going to buy it, I just don't feel right playing copied games. -Disjaukifa
OK not a problem, I've modified my previous post. I've been wondering something, is there anyway to confirm for sure that this cartridge is real? I'm not a collector of NES so I'm sure someone how is will more than likely be able to answer this, but how do you know its not a repo? -Disjaukifa
Can you stop spamming every topic with a few irrelevant words? We get it, you want to get to 50 posts so you can use the marketplace. Either contribute something or fuck off.
Exactly. It's all bullshit prices based on a few sales. All of the sudden everything is worth $10,000?
More like backadays. Who knows what they will sell for nowadays. During the time that a few gold NWC carts exchanged hands for the highest recorded sales Stadium Events was doing the same. If you bought a complete or boxed or even a sealed SE at that time for full market price I don't think you would break even if you had to sell it today. Sealed I dunno with so few all it takes is one guy. True more so with complete and boxed copies as there have been a few up for grabs in the last year or so.
