Natsume selling old new stock

[technozombie]

Anyone seen this yet?


http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/01/classic-game-publisher-cleans-out-its-closet-makes-thousands-on-ebay/

[BigusSchmuck]

Figures the best stuff is still ungodly expensive.

[Jibbajaba]

Wonder how much of that is going to get shipped straight off to be VGA graded.

[xelement5x]

Haha, that's pretty funny.  For once you could actually say you are still supporting the publisher by buying their old games

[BigusSchmuck]

Haha, that's pretty funny.  For once you could actually say you are still supporting the publisher by buying their old games

Yeah no kidding. lol

[Punch]

Where are the copies of Dead Moon?

[Black Tiger]

lol, $610 current bid fir Lufia II. Coolectards assemble!

I wonder how many of these SNES games will be gouged for a premium from being "uncirculated" and "direct from Natsume" and will include any recepts or waybills from these initial sales when flipped.

[esteban]

lol, $610 current bid fir Lufia II. Coolectards assemble!

I wonder how many of these SNES games will be gouged for a premium from being "uncirculated" and "direct from Natsume" and will include any recepts or waybills from these initial sales when flipped.

If buyers can get documentation from Natsume, then the item's provenance is established.  And $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

I learned something from watching Antique Roadshow.

[EmperorIng]

The few times I bought antiques (mainly antique prints/engravings for decoration) I made sure to demand provenance with the sale. One of the things I learned working at an art museum.

I find the item photographs for Natsume's official ebay page charmingly amateur.

[synbiosfan]

At least Square Enix sold their back stock for reasonable prices.

It's funny to see Natsume do this. I hope they have cases of Lufia II and take idiots money for months.

[technozombie]

It kind of pisses me off because I've wanted pocky and rocky forever and I would love to bust one open and play it, if not for the outrageous price.

This is a perfect example of why you shouldn't pay a shit ton of money for old games because you never know when a warehouse of old stock will show up.

[Medic_wheat]

I didn't even know they had an eBay account let alone what they are listed as.

[SamIAm]

You guys want to hear something really sad?

Disclaimer: I have absolutely zero proof that this is true.

I was searching for threads on Japanese forums that talked about the PCE, and one guy said that he worked at an NEC warehouse in the mid-90s.

Over 100,000 unsold Duo-RX systems were apparently destroyed.

In the discussion that followed, it was said, and this jives with what I've seen, that big-name manufacturers in Japan never price things super-low to get rid of old stock because it hurts their brand image and threatens whatever their latest products are. That's probably true often enough in the West, as well.

Seriously, though, imagine a big cubic pallet of Duo RX boxes 10 wide, 10 tall, and 10 deep. Then imagine 100 of those. All gone.

[EmperorIng]

That's not unlike Gamestop's practice of destroying their old stock of 4th and 5th gen games when the 6th gen was arriving.

[glazball]

That's not unlike Gamestop's practice of destroying their old stock of 4th and 5th gen games when the 6th gen was arriving.

Can you provide any links or proof of this?  I find it hard to believe.  What seems more likely is that they would simply take them out of circulation and store them in a warehouse.  Gamestop has done some dumb things but destroying games seems counter-intuitive since they you know, sell games.