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The good news? Nintendo is finally catching up with Sony and is going to start releasing greatest hits titles. The bad news? They're $10 more than Sony's GH titles.
Stupid Nintendo.
$30 each? Compared to the N64 Million Seller series, which were about $40, this is a step in the right direction... not as low as they should be, but in the right direction.
I do believe they want to keep making money. I'm sure they will still sell quite a bit. As for the N64 greates hits, that was basically just a golden ribbon :D. They were carts though, so it's not like they could afford to drop the price much. I'm sure Nintendo is making lots more money off the GCN based sheerly on the format alone.
Not a big deal for me since I probably own every game thus far that will get this price cut.
I think I've got every good GC game [Don't have RE:0 yet] out there so far, 19 games at last count. So this doesn't really mean much to me.
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
$30 each? Compared to the N64 Million Seller series, which were about $40, this is a step in the right direction... not as low as they should be, but in the right direction.
You shouldn't be comparing it to the N64 prices. Nintendo is competing with the PS2 and X-Box, not the Nintendo 64, so their prices should compete with theirs. Yet again Nintendo chooses to do things their way instead of aggresively compete.
There's nothing wrong with comparing it to Nintendo's last 'players choice' lineup - on the N64... after all it is the same company... and there, most games were $50 (from Nintendo). And "Players Choice" ones were BARELY cheaper, if at all - $40-$50... so seeing the Players Choice NGC games will be $30 is good... at least its $20 less than the normal games this time...
And what about Game Boy? Rereleased games on THAT system usually sell for the full $30!
So, I'd say its a step in the right direction. As far as they should go? No... but in the right direction.
You don't seem to be getting it. You should not compare these new prices to the N64 ones. You should compare them to the PS2's prices since that is the system the Gamecube is competing with.
Quote:Originally posted by Great Rumbler
I think I've got every good GC game [Don't have RE:0 yet] out there so far, 19 games at last count. So this doesn't really mean much to me.
I have 19 too:
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Star Wars: Rogue Leader
- Pikmin
- Crazy Taxi
- Luigis Mansion
- Super Monkey Ball
- Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
- Resident Evil
- Eternal Darkness
- F1 2002
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Animal Crossing
- Star Fox Adventures
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
- Mario Party 4
- Resident Evil 0
- Metroid Prime
- Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest
- Medal of Honor: Frontline
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And my GBA (which is, sadly, MIA at the moment)
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Super Mario Advance 1
- Super Mario Advance 2
- Super Mario Advance 3
- Game and Watch Gallery 4
- A Link to the Past
- Metroid Fusion
- Doom
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In order of acquisition. What's your GC and GBA library?
Keeping in mind that I've sold a lot of my games, here's what I have for all three consoles and the GBA:
Gamecube:
1. Animal Crossing
2. Metroid Prime
3. Super Mario Sunshine
4. Eternal Darkness
5. Resident Evil
6. Time Splitters 2
7. Rogue Leader
GBA:
1. Chu Chu Rocket
2. Sonic Advance
3. Mario World
4. Yoshi's Island
5. Advance Wars
6. Golden Sun
7. Castlevania: CotM
8. Castlevania: HoD
9. Duke Nukem Advance
10. Metroid Fusion
11. Zelda: ALttP
PS2:
1. Ace Combat 4
2. Time Splitters
3. Gran Turismo 3
4. GTA 3
5. GTA: Vice City
6. Jak and Daxter
7. ICO
8. The Getaway (although I'm gonna return it soon)
9. The Mark of Kri
10. Maximo
11. Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon DX
X-Box:
1. Tony Hawk 3
2. Morrowind
3. Splinter Cell
4. Shenmue II
I don't normally sell games. You never get back what you put into them, nor should you. Seems foolish to spend 50 dollars on a game, and only get 20 back (if you're lucky). Hence how many games I own. Once I buy a game, it's gonna stay mine.
These are the console games I've bought since getting a Gamecube in Nov. '01.
NGC
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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 - Rogue Leader
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Extreme-G 3
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Wave Race Blue Storm
Eternal Darkness
Super Mario Sunshine
Burnout
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Metroid Prime
N64
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Banjo-Tooie
Paper Mario
Perfect Dark
GBC
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Nothing.
Quote:Originally posted by EdenMaster
I don't normally sell games. You never get back what you put into them, nor should you. Seems foolish to spend 50 dollars on a game, and only get 20 back (if you're lucky). Hence how many games I own. Once I buy a game, it's gonna stay mine.
That's EXACTLY how I feel. The last game I sold was Star Fox 64. It wasn't until I wanted to play it again that I realized I had made a big mistake.
I only have half a Game Cube Game, Sonic Adventure 2, the rest of the games are my brothers, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Brothers and Metroid
Of Course the 3 players choice games are ones we have
Oh, and I NEVER sell games unless they are REALLY terrible games or I have multiple copies of the game... I'd never want to get rid of a decent game! The tiny amount of money you get for it is hardly worth losing a good game...
Same here ABF, and often I won't even sell terrible games, like Quest 64. Of course, selling multiple copies of the same game is pretty much required unless you are a total nut, or you decide to give the extra copy as a gift or something.
On another note, the system I have the most games for (aside from PC, but that's obvious what with it being around since the dawn of gaming time, well almost) is the GBA. I dunno, it's just that they are both cheap and it's got pounds and kilograms of good games.
Same here, DJ. Notice in my list Super Monkey Ball, Gauntlet, and F1. All were games that I bought because I wanted a new game (and in F1s case, I was so excited about Mario Sunshine coming out that nothing else in my game library looked good, so I decided to buy a new game in the meantime. I haven't played it since I got Sunshine). But still, as Geoboy said, you never know when you might get the urge to play that one game that you don't have.
After the PC (which I have the most games for by at least 3 or 4 times), the one I have the most for is GB/GBC, if you include both... even though I haven't gotten a new game for it since Summer of 2001 (when I got Zelda: Oracle of Seasons), I have around 40 GB/C games... more than my 25 N64 games or 10 NGC games...
Oh, and I usually don't sell or trade bad games either, but I did sell or trade a couple of GB games... only one of which I regret. Getting rid of Toy Story, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents: Major League Baseball, and trading Kirby's Dream Land (hey, I'd beaten it and got Zelda: LA for it...) I don't regret, but letting Mega Man 4 (GB) get away from me? For the not nearly as good, and MUCH more common (less valuable and cheaper to get) Mega Man 1 (GB)? I'll always be annoyed that my friend never gave me that game back... :(
Of course selling or giving away multiple copies of the same game just makes sense. I do have multiple copies of some games on PC, but thats because I got it once then got a collection of games later that had it in it (inc. Rally Championship, Lords of th Realm 2, and Worms 2)... on GB, the two games that I have two copies of I got on purpose for multiplayer (Micro Machines and Super RC Pro-Am).
I tend to buy games in bunches... I'll go a month or two (or more sometimes depending on how much money I have and if theres time to go to the mall) without getting anything, then buy several games at once... like after Christmas (and getting 3 games as presents), I hadn't bought anything since late August, so I got 5 games... now I'll have to wait until summer to get anything more than Zelda (because that's all that I have the money for, really...). Oh well.
I know about 5 people myself included who have 2 copies of Diablo, we all had Diablo and then we had bad pc's so we couldn't get Diablo II and by the time we had new pc's the Diablo Battle Chest was out and getting the Battle Chest was cheaper than getting Diablo II and Lord Of Destruction Seperatly and we got a free copy of Diablo I, so we just lent them to friends who didn't have Diablo I
Speaking of people selling used games I just bought Zelda for the NES for $9US plus $4.95US shipping and handling, I think I got a good deal
Poor fool who sold Zelda
Diablo and BlackThorne are the only original Blizzard PC games I don't own... for some reason, I just never got it.
Here's my list of GC games:
Luigi's Mansion
Resident Evil 1
Star Fox Adventures
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters
Super Smash Brother
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Wave Race
Pikmin
Timesplitters 2
Mario Party 4
Animal Crossing
Super Mario Sunshine
Metroid Prime
Two Towers
Cel Damage
Super Monkey Ball
Robotech Battlecry
Eternal Darkness
NHL Hitz '02
I almost never sell games, being an avid game collector. Sometimes I do sell games, but only if they aren't any good.
Mine and my bro's GC collection:
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Super Smash Bros. Melee
NHL Hitz 20-02 (game that I can kick anyones ass in)
NBA Street
ASB 2002
Madden NFL 2002
Metroid Prime
Eternal Darkness
NBA 2K3
Animal Crossing
It's not foolish to sell games. If I just paid $50 for a game, beat it, and don't plan on playing it again in the forseeable future, I'll sell it if I can get at least $20-30 for it and if I'm confident that it will become a Player's Choise or Greatest Hits title eventually. Case in point: Star Fox Adventures. I bought the game the day it came out and beat it within a few weeks. It didn't have any replay value so I sold it for $30. In case I want to play it again, I can always get it when it becomes a GH title or goes on sale. Also, I didn't like SFA that much, so I didn't have the urge to keep it. Games like ICO don't have that much replay value, but they're so damned good that I just have to keep them. That was the not the case with SFA.
I never have to sell bad games because if I'm not 100% certain that a game is going to be excellent I buy it from Babbages where I can return the game for a full refund if I don't like it.
Believe me, I'm thought this through quite thouroughly.
I almost always buy at places you can return to (EB, GameStop (used to be Software ETC...)) for PC games... because of how I get bunches of games every so often when we go there. Console games I get more of at places that you can't return to, but overall return policy isn't why I shop at those places... I never return games anyway, unless the disc is broken or doesn't work. I haven't gotten any N64 or NGC games yet that I regret buying so it works out fine.
I go there because for PC games they have BY FAR the best selection... and because we don't shop at Wal-Mart and Sears doesn't carry PC (or, it seems, Cube) games anymore, to get a decent PC game selection you really have to... Cube is also available at Kay-Bee, of course, but their prices are often high...
Anyway, $20-$30 to sell a game? Where in the world do you get that much money for selling a game? I thought places give you a LOT less than that...
I got around $20-30 for SFA because it was less than a month old. But I also got $32 for Halo around half a year after it came out.
Ha! I got SFA for only $16 with case and instruction manual. :p
I'd love to find a place that sold GC games at that price new.
Yes, it was used.
More titles added to the lineup, but they're still $30. What is wrong with Nintendo? They might as well just bow out right now. It's obvious that they want to be in third place.