Quoted from CrazyLevi:The logic is always the same. "There are a lot of games being made and prices are higher than I want them to be."
And then 3 years later prices and demand are higher.
THe hoped-for recession likely won't help either. During the last recession prices didn't drop, people just held on to their stuff like the hoarding bastards pinball people are.
A full-on economic apocalypse is a different story but in that case we'd all have far bigger problems than expanding our pinball collections.
Lower end games are not coming down, but new games are certainly losing a chunk of change after they get released. that wasn't the case in the past. It seems like there are too many games coming out for the market to support long term. In the past you could buy something, play it for a few months and then sell for a slight loss. Now you are looking at 1-2k within 6 months on some games. People who used to burn through new ones are going to end up slowing down. Will be interesting to see what happens down the road.