U.S. Sonic with UPC sells for $981.33

[understatement]

Still nobody seemed to comment on the points that I made. There's an easy way to fix this, and this should be done for all those other games like Strider that just had a barcode slapped on.

1. Edit the European listing to add "European copies were also distributed in the US".

2. Delete US entry for game entirely.

That's all that's done for Canadian versions, I see no reason why this game should be entered differently when it's released the same way as those other Euro releases. It's like the Music Machine record, when people thought it came with the game it used to sell for $100. When people realized it's unrelated it became worthless. That's about the only reason I can think of that's making people consider this Euro release as a US release, they don't want their copies to become worthless. There's a big difference between $5 and $1000 for a minor variant.

I don’t think you could remove the UPC games from the US list because they were not sold in Europe with the UPC stickers! So if anything you would have to say in the US list that they are Euro games with a US UPC sticker. Even if you did that I don’t think it would drop the price it’s just like the EarthBound controversy it’s all about supply and demand.

Sonic without UPS sticker: supply = common and demand = low thus price reflects this.
Sonic with UPS sticker: supply = rare and demand = mid to high thus price reflects this.

I understand what Tony is trying to say but it’s a moot point as there is a way to tell Sonic U.S. from Sonic U.k. while there is no way to tell Radiant Silvergun Japan from the ones sold in the U.S.

It’s the same with NAM-1975 for Neo-Geo the Euro version has black marker all over the exposed woman and the U.S. does not but there’s not much difference in price as it’s about 50/50 with marked and unmarked but if there was only 10% unmarked and 90% had markings I think you would see the same kind of price difference.

Here here.


As for Radiant Silvergun, does it have anything that distinguishes a Euro copy from a NTSC? I honestly don't know. If not, that's why there's not a craze over the US release.

And Gameguy, I hate to sound the ass (or be the one to say this), but Canadian releases don't garner the attention that US ones do. I'm not going to dip one toe into the waters of why that is, but that's how it is. That's why the Canadian releases don't get the bucks for a weird sticker.

Radiant Silvergun is Japan only for the Saturn with no difference from the ones sold over here thus I think you had to get one of the unlocking keys for the Saturn to play it the only difference would be the receipt they got and if that’s the case I have the rarest copy of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout there is with my Jap copy and its U.S. receipt.