Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.
This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.
Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.
I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)
Video games. Retro video games. All of it.
Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.
This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.
Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.
I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)