Current Events > How and why is Metroid Fusion so expensive?

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Jeez. $150+ for a CIB? I'm glad I take care of my shit now. Wish I took care of my shit back in the '90s.

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And publishers wonder why people illegally play their retro games while not making them easier to play digitally at reasonable prices

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I keep eating all the games. The rare ones are tastiest.

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Yeah, I have the GBA carts, but dug out my Wii U to play that and Zero Mission on the TV. But obviously I'm only like one of five that actually owns a Wii U, they need to start throwing some GBA games on the Switch. Obviously as part of Nintendo Online would be ideal but man there was some great stuff I'd pay separately for if that was the only option (these Metroid games included if I didn't already have easy access).

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Retro shit has gotten absurdly expensive over the last year. likely a result of people getting bored during lockdown, very little new media of note coming out for the better part of a year (leading to them digging in their attic and rediscovering their old stuff out of boredom), and stimulus checks igniting the desire to buy extra stuff.

And the most heavily-affected series are all pretty easily traceable. It all comes down to whatever is currently trending/popular. Persona 5 R comes out, all SMT stuff shoots up in price a week later and never comes down. FFVII:R does the same for a lot of classic ps1-era JRPGs (except, ironically, FF itself). DQ XI is older, but new enough to be on the radar, and suddenly classic DQ is expensive as hell. Pokemon is a long-standing nostalgia-beast for many people; SW/Sh were likely the very next switch purchases for all those people that bought one for Animal Crossing, and that "attic effect" I described would be in high gear, here. Boom - cards and games alike explode in price. Metroid Dread gets announced, suddenly all metroid games triple in value overnight.

It's all pretty predictable at this point, if you follow the trends. Still obnoxious as hell, seeing as all these $70-$200 listing would have been lucky to hit $15-30 two years ago. These aren't rare games. There is nothing about any DS era pokemon game to warrant their $200 price tags. The value here is all artificially inflated.

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Thank God for digital I guess

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Im sure Dread and Nintendo not giving a fuck about retro titles not being available on their most recent piece of hardware has something to do with it. I was considering getting a WiiU to play it and some other games I wanted to revisit but theyre too expensive for what the consoles worth IMO

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@DarkBuster22904 Makes me glad I'm an RPG guy who never sells his games. I never thought video games would be considered equity, but here we are.

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