Nimrodil
10-17-2006, 03:56 PM
How do you think game collecting will develop in the “future” (lets say 10-30 years :) ). Will it grow or decline and what kind of aspects do you think can change the phenomenon on a fundamental level? Discuss free and let us see where we land. To start with I have thinking of two aspects (and I hope they don´t sounds too silly).
The economy grow amazingly fast in countries like China and India where a LOT of people live and meanwhile the hole earth gradually become more and more globalized ("smaller" if you want). What will happen when (or if…) just some per cent of those become game collectors and starts compete with (mainly) the Americans, Europeans and Japanese to get nice game collections? I suppose the prices will raise a lot, but meanwhile I think it would be fun if the collecting community become even more global than today.
The second though have to do with how long our games will work. As far as I can understand it both cartridges and CD/DVD have a rather short life time in working condition. What happen if suddenly (even if I think it will happen gradually) alla NES-carts, Saturn-CD:s and PS2-DVD:s etc. stop working? Since a lot of us have “collecting mind sets” like most collectors in general I personally think people will continue collect games. People collecting stamps, coins and a million other things without actual use value (but often with high collect values, both counted in money and personal pleasure, so why not games that a lot of us love so much?). And maybe that will mean that boxes, manuals, spine cards, registration cards etc. will be even more important when nobody actuelly buy the old games to play with? But would so many as today really want to collect non-working artefacts as games?
Some thoughts about those questions or other related things about the future for game collecting?
The economy grow amazingly fast in countries like China and India where a LOT of people live and meanwhile the hole earth gradually become more and more globalized ("smaller" if you want). What will happen when (or if…) just some per cent of those become game collectors and starts compete with (mainly) the Americans, Europeans and Japanese to get nice game collections? I suppose the prices will raise a lot, but meanwhile I think it would be fun if the collecting community become even more global than today.
The second though have to do with how long our games will work. As far as I can understand it both cartridges and CD/DVD have a rather short life time in working condition. What happen if suddenly (even if I think it will happen gradually) alla NES-carts, Saturn-CD:s and PS2-DVD:s etc. stop working? Since a lot of us have “collecting mind sets” like most collectors in general I personally think people will continue collect games. People collecting stamps, coins and a million other things without actual use value (but often with high collect values, both counted in money and personal pleasure, so why not games that a lot of us love so much?). And maybe that will mean that boxes, manuals, spine cards, registration cards etc. will be even more important when nobody actuelly buy the old games to play with? But would so many as today really want to collect non-working artefacts as games?
Some thoughts about those questions or other related things about the future for game collecting?