Our first machine was a really nice Twilight Zone which I think cost us around £1.4k. When I got into the hobby 17 or 18 years ago a Fish Tales could be had for well under a grand, along with many other 90s titles. With machines selling for £10-12k less are bought NIB which means less supply in the future than older games. It was a popular game, and at that price quite a lot would have been sold NIB, hence there are quite a number of them around and they frequently come up for sale. Using LOTR as an example - that would have been NIB in around 2004 for around £4k or less. So if the prices of NIB rise so high that most people are priced out or just unwilling to pay, there's less new games being bought which equals less older games being sold, further supressing supply.Īnd on top of all this, it means less titles available on the secondary market in the future. This ties into NIB games because one of the biggest motivators for most of us to sell a machine is wanting something new and shiny - we're all restricted to some degree by either space or money. Then there's the fact that people are reluctant to let games go because they know they'd have to buy them back for more if they want them again in the future = less supply. Simple supply and demand - as more people get into the hobby the demand increases whilst the supply stays the same, hence the price increases on older games. There are a finite number of the older machines floating around, and they've been increasing in price for as long as I can remember. Honestly, whilst I agree that you don't need to buy a NIB machine to get into the hobby, I do think this will be a problem down the line.
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