So all saturn games have like tripled in price or what?

[bartre]

I felt like putting together a box of crap from japan and came across this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sengoku-Blade-Sega-Saturn-JP-GAME-/331799985260?hash=item4d40d1fc6c:g:ZqIAAOSwP~tW4lnp

Sengoku blade, with almost 4 hours left on auction and no spine card.
currently bid to $112.
what the hell? i thought it was like a $40-50 game on the high end?

[xelement5x]

It's the rack. People love the boobies on that chick.


Everything has been going up though.  For a long time Sega stuff was immune to it and it was mainly Nintendo that was heavily inflating, now people are throwing money at everything.   We were talking about Dreamcast prices that one day, even stuff that used to be semi-reasonable is inflating.  Skies of Arcadia managed to go from being like $40 or so to almost $80 in just the last several months. 

[bartre]

I've kinda noticed, i think i just needed to bitch.

I'm in a few gaming groups on FB, those people are just insane.

[technozombie]

I wonder if Japan has retro game personalities that help drive prices? I mean watching GameCenter CX made me want Super Fanasy Zone.

[Otaking]

I guessed before clicking the link it would be a yamatoku-classic auction, and it was.
Don't judge trends or general prices on his auction end prices, for years they (suspiciously) always end very high over general market value.

[Digi.k]

perhaps all of us here are to blame back in 2006 when youtube just popped up and we were younger and naive about the world and its monetizing ways and we just wanted to educate the world the way of the pc engine and other japan only systems... like saturn etc...

little did we know whether or not those vids we made back then had any impact on ebay prices once they were unleashed unto the world....
https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=1568.0

I got quite a bit of saturn stuff but there is about 10+ titles I would still like to get but now I don't think I am going to bother at current rates.

[TheClash603]

Everyone knows you needed to buy your games 20 years ago...  or 20 years from now.

The good news is you can play what you got for the next 20 years.

[bartre]

Everyone knows you needed to buy your games 20 years ago...  or 20 years from now.

The good news is you can play what you got for the next 20 years.

yeah i've noticed.
good thing i've got the turbo stuff i want.

[esteban]

perhaps all of us here are to blame back in 2006 when youtube just popped up and we were younger and naive about the world and its monetizing ways and we just wanted to educate the world the way of the pc engine and other japan only systems... like saturn etc...

little did we know whether or not those vids we made back then had any impact on ebay prices once they were unleashed unto the world....
https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=1568.0

I got quite a bit of saturn stuff but there is about 10+ titles I would still like to get but now I don't think I am going to bother at current rates.

I just re-read 75% of that thread. Ha!

I can't believe it was a decade ago.

[Johnpv]

Saturn has definitely been one of the hardest affected by the retro price spike.  Everything's gone up, but Saturn really jumped.  I think the same is going to happen to Gamecube soon.  I know component cables for it have been pricey for some time, but games have mostly stayed affordable.  It seems that consoles that get ignored while they're new become the expensive hot item a few generations later.

[crazydean]

Uh oh guys, better start collecting for the Wii U now.

[BigusSchmuck]

Yeah Panzer Dragoon Saga has definitely gone up in the past several years. Hell, I thought I paid too much for it back in 2013 ($150). http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=sega+saturn+panzer+dragoon+saga&_sop=16
Now it looks like people are trying to sell their single discs for that price.

[esadajr]

Uh oh guys, better start collecting for the Wii U now.

Retail price is the "bargain" price. Nintendo is releasing some "classics" at cheaper prices. But even then better act now. The WiiU will be this "underrated" console full of "undiscovered" "gems".

[esadajr]

as per Saturn goes, like the Turbo, it used to be only US releases were affected. Japanese resellers caught up and know they can sell at collectard prices to the crazy americans.

Only cheapies are those where the language barrier makes them unplayable.

Best is to give up and play from backup discs, Saturn CD drives seem to be as reliable as PC Engine ones and suitable replacements are widely available as well. In some cases I rather play on an emulator because of fear of losing progress.

[Otaking]

Had a quick look around at the prices of sold Japanese Sega Saturn games and the prices seem to generally be about the same as around 2010 when I was last looking up SS prices.