RegularGuyGamer

TIL this was a PS1 game. Good stuff!

Well no. However, most people reported not using the 3D or using it sparingly which is why Nintendo introduced the 2DS and XL model.

If foldable phones become more popular, or when apple releases one, the 3DS will be more easily emulated by the masses. Emulating DS and 3DS on my Fold 5 is easy and looks better than the original hardware. Granted, you're paying more than $300 for it but it is a solution if you already have a foldable.

I can get behind this thought just bc I read so many comments about how the console and games are rare while dismissing 76 million consoles is a small amount. I feel many gamers skipped the 3DS and we're all in on PS3. Once they circled back, they realized what was available and immediately concluded that every must have missed it. When the reality is, it did considerably well and got stronger every year well into it's life cycle. It laid the ground work for a handheld to be the main attraction as Nintendo transitioned to the Switch.

Do you not know how to fly w the cape?

Up there for the best game of all time. Imagine making a game like Mario 3 and then following it up with Mario World. I've always liked the world in Mario World better then Mario 3 and Dino Land overall is a scene that can't be replicated. And the cape is the best power up of all time. 10/10

I'm just going to play devil's advocate bc I am a big fan of the 3DS but still can justify the prices we see here in the states for a console. Idk if youve played most most of these games, but it's gotta be bc of the RPG aspect. The I guess as far as Kirby games they're good. Zelda remakes could be emulated on anything else that isn't a 240p screen? Idk if there are any QOL aspects for the games but they didn't wow me. The Mario & Luigi remakes I actually forgot about but they didn't do particularly well upon release. The Pokemon games were poorly received. I liked XY but SM were not good. Maybe compared to how shit they got on the Switch? Do people actually play Yokai games? Honestly idk it to be a popular series here. I bought Castlevania at launch and it was a let down. I bought around 50 games on in release or close to it so maybe compared to the current Gen they hold up since the current iterations of most of these series are so poorly done? Biggest games for me are 3D land, Mario kart 7 (better than 8), Pokemon XY, Dragonball Fusion, Kid Icarus, NES Remix, Mario Maker, Smash 4, Metroid Federation Force. I'm not a big RPG guy so I honestly dk what they have to offer. I heard good things about the SMT games but vividly remember those sitting in clearance bins for $10-15 for ages.

It has to be it. The 3DS has completely perplexed me as a collector. It's the most expensive loose AND CIB Nintendo console you can buy. Seriously, could you buy a launch NES for the same price as the Pokemon *new 3DS CIB right now? The kicker for me is that the later released consoles were sticker sealed. That's when I stopped collecting the CE releases. So it's the easiest console to hack AND it plays all Nintendo handheld games natively. But is that enough? The screens are ok, nothing spectacular by modern standards. People go nuts for an IPS screen when you can throw one in a DMG these days for $20 so I can't buy that hype. Maybe bc the DS is so desirable and the best way to play DS games is on a 3DS? Redditors tried to convince me it's bc it's not made anymore and it's rare but it sold over 40 million consoles which is an absolute ton. The library is good, I mean I like it but I think from an objective standpoint it's more OK-ish. It's not that large, especially by modern standards. There's a decent distribution of games. Anyway I look at it, i can't figure it out. I'm not mad about it, I have the SNES & Pokemon CE -bought them both new - so I have a lot of the hardware that is desirable to me. I would love for someone who is paying these prices to convince me the console is worth the cost of admission.

Looking at my collection:

I could probably test it. The issue would be deciding which games to examine bc not every game ends up at 90k lol

Ther e a ton of factors that go into a max bid for a high dollar item.

Lol wtf?? I'm shocked bro. Good call on that one. It's popular in the card world to send in cards, get a 9, then crack the slab and sell it raw for the next person to case the 10 bc the price difference between 9 and 10 for cards like a Charizard 1st Ed is insane - like x 5 or x 10. When I saw that picture, I initially thought that might've been the case. Perfect pics of the front. Shit pics of the top and bottom. Why wasn't it graded already? I guess some people are really out here keeping several thousand dollars of games ungraded at any time. What a world. It's just a different reality than I live in. I know we all have different opinions on grading but no card, comic, sealed game, hell even movie at this point, worth any significant amount of money is sitting around me ungraded. My mind is blown someone has that stash of ungraded NES games and all their other sales are ungraded comics and sports cards.

That makes sense. Coming from looking at mostly graded cards, 10s are always on the table. But w the grade scale of Vidya, I get why it's not the highest grade no matter the circumstances given a particular circulation of the game. Put me in that camp! That's was the first thing I said. With grading on my mind, I saw that and dismissed a good grade right away. I know w cards that depending on the size of the crease, you can't get an otherw ise mint card over a 7. Tbf, idk how those translate to the video game grade scales. A 9.4 is a hell of a grade for what my eyes look away from those last two pics. I thought there were decent creases on the top too with those low quality pics. Good eye. The gamble definitely paid off.

I appreciate the insight. Not just w this one particularly but these raw high dollar games in general. With those, raw gets you a ton of top tier items for $90k. 90k gets a sealed booster box of 1st edition shadowless Maybe it's that NES is in a stage I haven't comprehended yet. Big card prices are for 10s, at least the ones I follow. NES carrying a premium and not be 10s doesn't connect in my mind yet. E: I guess what I'm getting at is, if this was a 10, I'd understand the consensus on the price being north of 75k given the rarity and significance. W.o the grade, it just seems like such a gamble from my end.

Can anyone give me insight into how this price is reached? Like what factors play into it going to 90k? 2 or 3 to exist, so it's rare. Castlevania so cool? A ton of money on the sideline from other HA auctions and switching into favorites or better long term holds? Bitcoin went brrr so time to splurge? Maybe a quick flip? Raw -> grade gets $110k? Honestly curious. People saying they're not surprised by $90k but that's more than most grails in other sectors of the collectors markets. And those are for graded items. Pivotal game, sure but not historic in my book. 3 is a better game but I guess missing the hangtab factor? $90k is 3x $30k. Like, that's a proper amount of cash. I feel people are numb to these huge numbers. It's $10k over $80k. That's nothing to stick your nose up at. It makes me think these purchases are with funny money from big profits pulled from other sales.