Code Monkey | 2,010 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I wonder if the Atari 2700 will go up in value. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,596 Homebrew Team · Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I wonder if that, I turned down $1M offers statement, was true or just to hype up the pending sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty | 187 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Deadeye said: I wonder if that, I turned down $1M offers statement, was true or just to hype up the pending sale. I just assume he was full of shit. No one turns that down . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,095 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Deadeye said: I wonder if that, I turned down $1M offers statement, was true or just to hype up the pending sale. Couldn't have been true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,095 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, DoctorEncore said: I thought it could for as high as double that price, but this seems appropriate. It's basically a very expensive paperweight. An extremely rare and pretty cool paperweight, but a paperweight nonetheless. It functions! I know it doesn't do anything special, but one can observe and demonstrate a bit of Sony engineering from the 16-bit era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,740 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Considering the number of years this thing was on tour through the many different gaming conventions with pictures and videos of people playing games on this (myself included), I'm surprised that anyone at this point wouldn't be aware that the thing functioned just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 582 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) I honestly think it was a mistake to have the thing listed so long on the site. I understand wanting to garner interest, but it also seems to have burned the hype and passion buyers. People realizing they had bid obscene $ on the thing. Edited March 6, 2020 by Nintegageo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romiked2689 | 120 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 So glad terry diebold didn’t get big money! He lied his ass off. Watch a second pop up in a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,740 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Here is a hypothetical question for everyone. Let's just say that today we discovered that there was a Super Mario Bros. CD game that had been in development for this system and that the disc is fully playable on the prototype system, and just for the sake of the hypothetical, the game was 99% complete. In other words, we just discovered a fully playable unreleased Mario game that only works on this prototype system. What would that do to the value of this system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Should have taken care of the yellowing. Shm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) . Edited March 6, 2020 by Californication Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,095 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 21 minutes ago, Californication said: Should have taken care of the yellowing. Shm. bah, you gotta appreciate that rich patina! 22 minutes ago, TDIRunner said: Here is a hypothetical question for everyone. Let's just say that today we discovered that there was a Super Mario Bros. CD game that had been in development for this system and that the disc is fully playable on the prototype system, and just for the sake of the hypothetical, the game was 99% complete. In other words, we just discovered a fully playable unreleased Mario game that only works on this prototype system. What would that do to the value of this system? it shouldn't matter, this system should be valuable regardless, but sure, it would increase the value IMO I thought they had already identified a prototype game that was found with this system? that it was able to play? Am I mis-remembering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelardo | 154 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I don't know to what extent this has been discussed, but is there any chance Nintendo or Sony sue the owner to reclaim the hardware? I'd be concerned about expending any considerable amount of money on something if there's a chance I'd be taken to court over ownership, or I'll put it in another way, are we sure the seller is without a doubt the legal owner and Nintendo and/or Sony can't claim ownership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerBarnes | 184 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Abelardo said: I don't know to what extent this has been discussed, but is there any chance Nintendo or Sony sue the owner to reclaim the hardware? I'd be concerned about expending any considerable amount of money on something if there's a chance I'd be taken to court over ownership, or I'll put it in another way, are we sure the seller is without a doubt the legal owner and Nintendo and/or Sony can't claim ownership? If they wanted to my guess would it would have been done during the original discovery hype of the item. Not right after some poor soul spent $360k on it. Edited March 6, 2020 by TylerBarnes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,596 Homebrew Team · Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Would there really be a case for reclaim? It was sold at am office liquidation lot, from their story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 So has the live auction ended yet? (VGS is my only source of current gaming news) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 minute ago, GPX said: So has the live auction ended yet? (VGS is my only source of current gaming news) Yes. It got one more bid and sold for $360,000 with the buyers premium. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelardo | 154 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Deadeye said: Would there really be a case for reclaim? It was sold at am office liquidation lot, from their story. Just wondering if they could have a case here, so a former CEO had it and left it behind, are we sure he was the legitimate owner? Could Sony do something like file a stolen property police report and reclaim it? Or if something has been liquidated, whoever purchased it is now the legitimate legal owner regardless? Edited March 6, 2020 by Abelardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 On 3/5/2020 at 6:24 PM, OptOut said: I think you're missing the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars already bid on the thing! I know people are used to fake news or whatever, but this thing is already sold for AT LEAST the current bid... So anyone arguing this isn't worth 50k, umm... Wot? Edit: Figured I might as well add this here because you mentioned it several times @GPX, but why exactly would you subtract the influence of "hype" on the price of the system? What's the difference between "hype" and marketing, or "hype" and demand? At the end of the day, the value of the system is determined by a huge number of known and unknown factors, and "hype" is a perfectly valid one. Where would the value of a sealed SE be without "hype"? Where would the 100k Mario be? It's impossible to say because we live in a world where "hype" actually exists. If you discount "hype", why not discount any other number of factors which effect value? I’m not discounting hype by any means. You need to hype things up to garner the right kind of interest in your market. What I’m sceptical about is the amount of “artificial hype”, by that I mean fake news/false claims/blatant lying. Examples: - “turned down offers 1-3 million” - “everyone would want a piece of this rare history” Once you start off with false claims, then in my eyes, you’ve started the ball rolling for a shill bidding process. Effectively, the end price is not a true reflection of the market. And why I talk about hype more than other factors? Because that’s the main thing sellers can lie about. You can’t really lie much about condition or rarity status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincoln | 230 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 57 minutes ago, MiamiSlice said: bah, you gotta appreciate that rich patina! it shouldn't matter, this system should be valuable regardless, but sure, it would increase the value IMO I thought they had already identified a prototype game that was found with this system? that it was able to play? Am I mis-remembering? There was a cart of some kind but iirc it's not working? Or just a bios cart to run the disc drive. It's been reverse engineered and emulated, and someone released a game that runs in the emulator and would theoretically run on the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendragonx | 117 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Bearcat-Doug said: Yes. It got one more bid and sold for $360,000 with the buyers premium. wow.. there was no Reserve? weird to turn down an offer of $1 mill and then not set that as a Reserve at least... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Pendragonx said: wow.. there was no Reserve? weird to turn down an offer of $1 mill and then not set that as a Reserve at least... No reserve. If the guy really had a million dollar offer, he's probably not too happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 He could have taken the 1,000,000 bought some bitcoin, and turned it into 360,000. Smh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,778 Administrator · Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 HAAAAAHHHHHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,095 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, Californication said: He could have taken the 1,000,000 bought some bitcoin, and turned it into 360,000. Smh. Lmaooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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