Game News A historic PS2 game estimated at more than €3,000, it’s time to look in your attic!
Published on 08/22/2022 at 11:11
We can never tell you enough: you have to search the attics and cellars of your grandparents. You may come across the rare pearl, still in its plastic, which can sell for thousands of euros like this historic PlayStation 2 game.
Summary
- Retrogaming and its nuggets sold at gold prices
- A game that exceeds a thousand euros
Retrogaming and its nuggets sold at gold prices
As we know, the video game market and especially that of retrogaming arouses covetousness. Recently, we have seen the price spikes of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S: the health crisis has had its impact, limiting the production capacity of Microsoft and Sony suppliers. As a result, fewer consoles can be produced which leads to their scarcity. Individuals, called scalperstake the opportunity to buy them en masse and resell them at exorbitant prices.
A rarity which therefore also affects old games, as we have seen in recent years: it is often with the game Super Mario Bros that prices go up. The Italian plumber’s first-ever NES installment has already sold over $2 million, while Super Mario 64 has surpassed 1.5 million. We can still mention Zelda, with a copy of the first opus gone for 870,000 dollars.
A game that exceeds a thousand euros
If it seems that the retrogaming market is dominated by Nintendo, some PlayStation games sometimes reach more than thousands of euros. This is particularly the case of Sengoku Anthologya compilation of beat ’em up games set during the Sengoku era (between about 1460 and the beginning of the 17th century, the same period as An axe). The game was released in 2009 on PlayStation 2.
SNK, the title publisher, produces only a few for Europe. Who says few copies says rarity, which inflates prices: last year, a copy of the complete game (box + manual) was sold for almost $1,500. Since then, bidding on Sengoku Anthology has only gone up and it is estimated at more than 3,500 dollars new (with the blister, the plastic packaging). In reality, we see that the complete game can be found today around €1,000 (Amazon, eBay). For the new game, it’s a different story: only one example is available on eBay, and it is worth more than 1680 €. What to do again on the flea markets and in the attics of grandpa and grandma.