Quote Originally Posted by Gemini-Phoenix View Post
I think it might be just that a lot of collector's are moving on, so some older games are losing value, but newer ones (Such as N64 and GameCube) are going up. At least that's how it seems here in the UK, so maybe it's just the US which is experiencing a dropout at this time. Bear in mind that it's now the summer months when people generally buy less games, new or old. eBay is also going downhill lately too with all these new policies which is driving away would-be sellers and also potential buyers

I also don't think the modern day digital rereleases really affects the values of some sealed games. People who collect such things do so for various reasons. Most collect for the sake of collecting, so there will always be people out there who will prefer to own a physical product rather than a hard drive with data on.
Well, I think what happened in the past two years was really an artificial price bubble. People paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for games that were manufactured in the millions of units in some cases is absurd. This whole practice of buying at a high price and trying to flip the game at a higher price on Ebay was something that kind of just came along and really skewed values. The addition of an attempt at grading and "professionalizing" the hobby if you will also falsely inflated prices. The lower prices now are just the natural cycle of people realizing they overpaid for stuff and supply increasing as new copies are found and more people sell at a loss.