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Even the old ones aren't particularly immune. A pokemon gold cartridge sells for only $10 less than a brand new Pokemon game at a fair few of the games stores I've been to.
That is more a mix of "collectors" and existential crises. People want to own the games they grew up with (nobody look at my shelf of Armored Core games...) and that went into overdrive when we were all expecting the world to end because of COVID... so expect another massive burst of sales come November.
And then you have the people who decide that, much like with baseball/pokemon cards, their scraped up pokemon yellow cartridge will be their retirement fund because it will be so valuable.