Who's making older games so expensive? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago by SubjectivelyGood@slrpnk.net to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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I don't want to buy games digitally anymore until I can actually own the game rather than the license. But then some freak on eBay is asking for $500 for a copy of Klonoa on the PS1. Then there are even more freaks who are willing to bid higher than that! Then the smaller retro games stores around me base their prices on these prices. There needs to be a price cap on this stuff. We can't let all of the richest nerds control the economy.

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[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 25 points 1 day ago

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

The cheapest games will always be last generations games
Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
Anything Xbox is cheap
PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games

[-] SubjectivelyGood@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

For burning to a disc from GOG, is there a way to do that with the old consoles? I have all of the PlayStations, because I have never liked playing on my PC. I wasn't allowed to play many of the games that came out on PS1 or PS2 growing up, and now that I have some sort of disposable income, I want to check out the stuff I missed out on. The issue is that those are the games that scalpers love. If there was a way to bypass them on the games like Silent Hill or Diablo I would love that.

[-] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What's the difference between playing on PC vs PS if it's the same game? Locking yourself out of either emulation or playing the PC version is going to make it harder/more expensive on you to replay old games.