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rabidshark
Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:18:08 PM


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I've been wondering with the support of classic titles for the Revolution whether it will raise or lower the price of original NES games. On the one hand, the prices could lower if they made the classic games available cheap (less than $5 each), and on the other it could raise the prices due to a more massive scale rebirth in interest. I personally see the Revolution's compatability as an obstacle for us casual cheap hobby collectors...I'm just glad that I have a bunch of games now for dirt cheap.

So what do you guys think?

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Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:08:46 PM


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I think Nintendo's smart, so there's a good chance that they won't tread on the path of Xbox arcade pricing.


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Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006 10:29:55 PM


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It's iffy now that I think about it. I was just watching some show on G4 (why did I have it on that channel? Your guess is as good as mine), and they were reviewing some older games that were on compilation disks. Not only were they "reviewing" them, if you can call it that, but they were putting them all down pretty much.

I know there's alot of idiots on the net who most likely live by what they see/hear on that channel when it comes to gaming, so maybe that will help deter people from wanting to purchase old carts, and settle only for downloads if they choose to brave how awful the games are (in their eyes).

On the other hand, Nintendo is good at marketing most of the time, so young ones that have only experienced a tad of NES may just get into it and decide to start collecting... ugh... prices are already high as it is too. It's pretty much a toss up I think.

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Posted: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:00:42 PM


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"Roth" wrote:
I was just watching some show on G4 (why did I have it on that channel? Your guess is as good as mine),


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and they were reviewing some older games that were on compilation disks. Not only were they "reviewing" them, if you can call it that, but they were putting them all down pretty much.



That's because they are a bunch of tards. Maybe IGN owns them?
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As for me I don't care if they release the old titles on the Revolution *unless they release rare games that I couldn't find on cart*. I just kinda prefer to play the games on the systems that they were intended for.


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Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:51:19 AM


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i think it'll bring the price down a little bit. i mean, who wants to own the cart when you can just download it, right? right? :lol:

what i mean is the people that aren't really into collecting for the NES, won't go out and buy the cart. they'll just download them and play them on their new fangled Revolution.

EDIT: atleast that's what i'm hoping....

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logandbz
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:57:45 AM


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"Commander Campkill" wrote:
i think it'll bring the price down a little bit. i mean, who wants to own the cart when you can just download it, right? right? :lol:

what i mean is the people that aren't really into collecting for the NES, won't go out and buy the cart. they'll just download them and play them on their new fangled Revolution.

EDIT: atleast that's what i'm hoping....


If that was the case then what do they make emu's (excuse me EMULATORS) for?


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Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:01:31 AM


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Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:51:47 PM


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"logandbz" wrote:
If that was the case then what do they make emu's (excuse me EMULATORS) for?


well, emulators aren't really mainstream marketed. no company says "go to this ROM site and download our games! FOR FREE!!!" now when Nintendo puts up the 'classics' for download play on the Revolution, they'll advertise the hell out of it. i've never seen a tv commercial or magazine ad for ROMs/emulators

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Posted: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:56:53 PM


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"Commander Campkill" wrote:
"logandbz" wrote:
If that was the case then what do they make emu's (excuse me EMULATORS) for?


well, emulators aren't really mainstream marketed. no company says "go to this ROM site and download our games! FOR FREE!!!" now when Nintendo puts up the 'classics' for download play on the Revolution, they'll advertise the hell out of it. i've never seen a tv commercial or magazine ad for ROMs/emulators


Yeah, CC beat me to it.

I suspect that most prices for the old original carts will drop either a little or a lot depending on the game and how widespread it is on the Revolution.

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manuel
Posted: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:02:16 PM


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I don't think there will be much change.
The prices will remainj the same I guess.

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logandbz
Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:40:12 PM


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I don't think the revolution has anything to do with this but, I went and did my monthly PAWN shopping.

Everytime I asked the pawn stores how much they were charging for NES games they had a sigh of relief and said $2 :shock:(where the average NES game should be). I don't know if they are sick of not selling any games at $5 a game, so they just want to get rid of them or what?

Anyone else notice a drop in price for NES games? or any other old systems?


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Aaron
Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:05:00 AM


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Some of the Nes games around here are way over priced I mean for commons this one sells common games for $8.00CDN. While others have all types of games for $2.00CDN.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:46:25 AM


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This pawn shop i went to wanted $5 for SMB/DH :shock:

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Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:20:13 AM


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Hmm...i've noticed game prices have gone down and console prices have stayed the same.
As for the rev increasing or decreasing prices, it is a toss up, as Roth said.
But i'll be using the current decrease in game prices to my advantage, just in case.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:27:28 PM


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"David" wrote:

But i'll be using the current decrease in game prices to my advantage, just in case.


Same here :wink:


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