Emulation didn't harm it. Flash carts didn't harm it.

I guarantee you that emulation, flash carts and repros have affected the retro gaming reseller market. If none of the aforementioned methods of playing games existed, then prices would be astronomical.

Emulation in particular hurts the value of retro games since it's free and easily available with far more options and features than original hardware.

>>3604632
This, if emulation didn't exist old games would be even more retardedly expensive than they already are. Look at the Sega Saturn for an example of an expensive as fuck console to collect for due to the lack of decent emulation.

The same will probably happen with OG Xbox years from now, although probably to a lesser extent due to the lack of exclusives and easy piracy.


That said, there will always be a market for people who want the original thing, and the reseller market will thrive because of it.

But it comes in waves. For example, when eBay first went up in the '90s, Atari 2600 systems went for hundreds of dollars. Now you can get them for almost nothing. The same will probably happen to NES, but we have a ways to go before that.

If Nintendo were to release actual, genuine, brand new & working copies of old games then that would take a massive bite out of the reseller market. Case in point, Nintendo has finally upped Amiibo production, and re-released what used to be limited editions, and now Amiibos which were going for $60 are now back down to $13.

It'll be like comics, Anon. Just study them. Value of some games will plateau or maybe even drop some (Earthbound) but true rarities will only appreciate - and reproductions will only grow their fame, like reprint comics.

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>>3604647

They tried that with Game & Watch titles. But they haven't been re-released consistently, so Donkey Kong Jr costs $10 while OG Donkey Kong costs $45.

>>3604596
Kill ebay and craiglist for a start. Americunt goys and hipsters are cancer. Also aussies, but I don't know what auss shitposters use to resell shit.

>>3604647
Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible anymore. If the new carts are to take the reseller market head-on, they need to be identical to the old carts in every possible way.

Think about it. Most retro shops weed out the repros from the official carts, and it's easy because repros are made with different PCBs and printers. If there's anything "different" about the new carts at all, internally or externally, resellers and informed buyers would take note.

Nintendo hasn't manufactured official NES carts in over 20 years, I doubt they could make them in exactly the same way they were made back then.

>>3604719
They wouldn't have to be exactly the same. As long as you could pop them into your old consoles and have them work, that'd be enough for most folks.

>>3604724
If that were true, the existing market of Chinese repro carts would've overtaken the market entirely by now.

The people who collect old cartridges want the real deal, not something newly manufactured. Besides, you'd need an original NES to play it anyway. The NES Mini is Nintendo's way of dealing with both of those issues as cheaply as possible.

>>3604596
Repros that are indistinguishable from official carts

>>3604735
But being officially licensed by Nintendo, and having the Seal of Quality on it, would make all the difference. Nobody wants Chinese bootleg trash, but everybody likes genuine Nintendo.

>>3604735
A lot of their value comes from them being authorized copies under copyright law
Chinese repro carts don't have that value.

>>3604632
And yet none of this is true.

>>3604808
It's not illegal to own or distribute a repro cartridge though, only to create it. Which is why China can get away with mass-producing them.

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>>3604783
>>3604808
>Official reproductions would kill the value of originals
Keep dreaming. Just look inside yourself honestly and you'll understand the reason. You want the value of originals to go down because you want originals. The people who drive the prices do too.

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>>3604632
>>3604645
>I'm a youtube babby who was barely around last century

There was prominent and very good emulation for many systems before the supposed retro "bubble" started. Retro games were cheap because they were less known and appreciated outside the relatively niche gaming circles, meaning that all the desirable games in the hands of know-nothing patents, casuals and ungrateful children were in greater supply and readily jettisoned. Hell, Gamestop was liquidating everything all they had from 4th gen and earlier just so they could make room for 6th gen stuff.

You wanna know what made prices balloon like crazy? New demand, from two places: kids who grew up and started buying back their childhood games, and (more importantly) the continuing increase in propagation of knowledge on the internet. AVGN, speed runners, youtubers, AGDQ, PAX, etc...all of those increased awareness, they increased interest, they increased desire, and they increased collecting. Emulation increased in popularity and in turn fueled people's fantasies of finally owning those sought-after games of old. With that came the reselling boom.

Garage sales and flea markets were hit with a flood of new collectors and everyone who already had desirable games clutched onto them harder. Prices were further hit by the double whammy of increased demand and lessened circulation.

The internet fandom isn't getting smaller, and the continued passage of time will only see more and more games lost to wear & tear, accidents, hoarders or idiots who ask for prices too high even for other idiots. You wanna know when the "bubble" will burst? When inflation catches up to the exorbitant prices that resellers ask for. In other words, the prices will NOT go down.

You want the real thing? Study hard, finish school, get a good job, don't have kids. You want them sooner? Either focus on owning fewer games, get rich somehow or get lucky on the garage sale hunt.

Or emulate, but don't be a smug dick about it.

Repros are all crap though.