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[Coolwhhip]

Worth it. They probably are too rich too care and this is actually a badass collector item.

 

[Spukc]

Worth it. They probably are too rich too care and this is actually a badass collector item.

nah it's an investment.
same like investing in art

people don't spend 2M on a painting because they like how it looks
just a smart thing to do with your cash

 

[UnNamed]

wonder who is buying shit like this?

People don't buy this for preservation, but just for speculation.

It's been a while retrogaming is become just speculation. These are not gamers. These are the guy who made speculations on comic books, then trading cards, then sneakers, now videogames.

 

[N0S]

 

[FunkMiller]

How is he a loser if he's rich?

Buying a video games cartridge, rather than doing something worthwhile with it.

 

[Synless]

Buying a video games cartridge, rather than doing something worthwhile with it.

Why buy art? cards? old currency? Fossils? They never do anything it besides display them. bunch of losers, all of them.

 

[TGO]

Really? I use my sealed copy to hold up a floating shelf that's tipping forward
I do need to replace that shelf.

 

[JORMBO]

What game can I buy new today, have graded and sealed in some fancy case and sell for tons 20 years from now?

 

[FunkMiller]

Why buy art? cards? old currency? Fossils? They never do anything it besides display them. bunch of losers, all of them.

Big Zelda fan, huh?

 

[GreatnessRD]

While I would never spend that much bread on an item, it is hilarious to see a bunch of hating in the comments. lol

 

[Synless]

Big Zelda fan, huh?

No, but I am a fan of collectibles and can understand why people spend big money on them.

 

[TheKratos]

Why buy art? cards? old currency? Fossils? They never do anything it besides display them. bunch of losers, all of them.

Indeed, dumb people.

 

[EverydayBeast]

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[tusharngf]

870k !!

 

[FunkMiller]

No, but I am a fan of collectibles and can understand why people spend big money on them.

There’s being a fan of collectibles (I have far too many Batman Hot Toys figures) and then there’s spaffing an absolute fortune up the wall for a single game cartridge. It’s not black or white.

 

[Ceadeus]

Damn. Imagine if it was from a good series how much it would get.

Like what?

 

[ahtlas7]

I once help almost a million $$ in my hand and burned it by opening the wrapper...

 

[Banjo64]

This is stupid. In any way anyone's going to spin it.

If I'm going to throw away $870k, I'd rather give them to a few families who need that kind of money.

Invest in your community. Not some stupid "rare collector's item".

For all you know the rich mother fucker who bought this could also be the most charitable mother fucker you’ll ever meet. Guy could be spending millions on charitable causes.

 

[The Pleasure]

People buy these as an investment. It's not stupid when it will make them a fuckload of money down the track.

It's the same reason people buy million dollar diamonds. They're not just "fucking rocks".

Yeah. They're SHINY fucking rocks. Haven't you heard Tamatoa?

 

[alf717]

Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.

Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions

World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneer

comics.ha.com

 

[anthony2690]

Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.

Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions

World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneer

comics.ha.com

I actually feel like this is BS, or they are massively grossly inflating prices, I know full well there is a few people with sealed copies of mario 64 graded, in absolutely beautiful condition in the UK, in the GGG FB group alone, and even then I doubt they would even be able shift them for 5% of this price...

Or is there something magical about the USA version that makes it more valuable?

 

[CatsGamesWhatever]

Looks like Mario 64 now holds the record. Link doesn't show the price but it went for $1,560,000.00.

Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.... | Lot #28137 | Heritage Auctions

World's Largest Collectibles Auctioneer

comics.ha.com

WATA graded games has little to do with regular video game collecting. It's just speculation.
I think spending $1.5 million on a Mario 64 sealed is crazy too. It was one of the most produced games on the N64 even getting multiple print runs under the Player's Choice version.
And I hope people investing in this stuff realize that by the time N64 started to roll into NA these games were being speculated upon. There's a reason WATA does no population reports on these collectibles.
I know someone who has a factory sealed case of GoldenEye on N64 for instance and there's multiple pieces of anecdotal evidence that the same thing happened for almost every other game!
FFS Tim Atwood is sitting on sealed boxes of Stadium events and other games going back to the NES and this was common info back in 2016.
But there's always a lag to these markets as people who own this stuff realize or act on how much it is now worth and try to get it graded/sold.
There's a reason the card grading companies have 2+ year backlogs and it's only going to get worst until the multiple markets correct.

 

[JORMBO]

How do they grade these? Since they are sealed I assume they don’t break the seal. What if someone opened this game up, popped in a copy of Quest 64, reshrink wrapped it and sold it for 1.5 mill?

 

[alf717]

I'm curious as well how they grade them. Is WATA some new standard didn't a "VGA" group exist? I should get a Mega Man 64 graded and rake in the big bucks.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Not really unusual people pay for old wine and whiskey all the time that they just put in a cellar vault.

 

[CatsGamesWhatever]

I'm curious as well how they grade them. Is WATA some new standard didn't a "VGA" group exist? I should get a Mega Man 64 graded and rake in the big bucks.

WATA came onto the scene and decided they were the authority with grading. They said they had hired many "experts" but a lot of collectors knew more than their experts in 2018(?) when they were formed.
Look at some of the PAT the NES Punk videos from then on WATA. He knew way more than anyone they hired but they still were a catalyst for the huge increase in prices of games. They basically created the market.
The so called "Left Bros" 1st print of Super Mario 3 on NES, The "sticker seal" black box games. Nobody gave a fuck about any of this stuff until Wata said it was valuable and collectors then agreed!

 

[digital_ghost]

I'm curious as well how they grade them. Is WATA some new standard didn't a "VGA" group exist? I should get a Mega Man 64 graded and rake in the big bucks.

Wata fool whoever bought this.

 

[lame gag1990]

It doesn't take much to scratch off a lotto ticket.

Eh? If he scratches and wins, he would be a winner.