Yeah yeah, play your games, never leave them sealed, whatever. It's easy to play games in emulation or find crummy condition stuff that works great to play. It's a lot harder to find stuff in great unopened shape.

I love to play me some games, but you're in denial if you don't acknowledge that there is a collectors' market for video games, and that many will remain sealed as tributes of worship.

I'm not a huge supporter of indiscriminate grading, but if I had a really nice sealed game that I was a huge fan of, I'd consider having it graded, even if that's the only thing I ever had graded. And that has nothing to do with it's eventual value.

If you want to worry about eventual value, it's a much dicier proposition, bordering on speculation when you get beyond the most popular franchises.