With the "collectible as investment" shit that's getting into every collecting hobby out there, this is a unironically a good move finance-wise and those things in total will likely cost millions in the future.
Collecting vintage anything is becoming straight up impossible as everything is getting bought by tech and finance bros who wanted to turn shiny cards into a portfolio.
and those things in total will likely cost millions in the future.
I think there is a line tho. Things that are physical and "just work" (NES, SNES, etc.) will be valuable, but things that are too much hassle and mostly digital or online-only anyways (current gen stuff) probably won't. I can see buying the first xbox for nostalgia and having a good time. I can see buying a PS5 in 2040 for nostalgia and having a shit-time because all the DRMs/digital stores/DLC/day-2-bugfixes can't connect to the servers that existed in 2020 and local co-op/LAN were never options in the first place for most games.
adults weren't interested in things like NES or 80's toys back then so there's a genuine rarity to finding a pristine boxed GI JOE headquarters or NES games in their plastic packaging. we as kids were abusing the fuck out of that stuff and didn't save boxes.
if everyone is buying this shit now in the hope that it'll be valuable it'll likely end up like all those people who bought baseball cards as an investment which are now mostly worthless because everyone was doing the same.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.
With the "collectible as investment" shit that's getting into every collecting hobby out there, this is a unironically a good move finance-wise and those things in total will likely cost millions in the future.
Collecting vintage anything is becoming straight up impossible as everything is getting bought by tech and finance bros who wanted to turn shiny cards into a portfolio.
I think there is a line tho. Things that are physical and "just work" (NES, SNES, etc.) will be valuable, but things that are too much hassle and mostly digital or online-only anyways (current gen stuff) probably won't. I can see buying the first xbox for nostalgia and having a good time. I can see buying a PS5 in 2040 for nostalgia and having a shit-time because all the DRMs/digital stores/DLC/day-2-bugfixes can't connect to the servers that existed in 2020 and local co-op/LAN were never options in the first place for most games.
adults weren't interested in things like NES or 80's toys back then so there's a genuine rarity to finding a pristine boxed GI JOE headquarters or NES games in their plastic packaging. we as kids were abusing the fuck out of that stuff and didn't save boxes.
if everyone is buying this shit now in the hope that it'll be valuable it'll likely end up like all those people who bought baseball cards as an investment which are now mostly worthless because everyone was doing the same.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.