CQ 226 - It's Maybe A Good Time To Buy Games

The Collector's Quest

Or as good as it might realistically get. Near term economic uncertainty aside, we're discussing some current and future factors that might have us looking back on today and saying "I wish I bought that before it blew up". Tools, charts, and ease of access to detailed information are unusually poor but there are numerous startups trying to improve this. The days of CIB Nintendo games costing 1.5x what cartridges do, let alone near mint copies, are NEVER coming back so it might be time to plan realistic future goals rather than hope good-stuff prices somehow return to 2008.