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My friend sold his Video Game Collection, it just made me have a midlife crisis at 29. Is this normal? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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My friend and I collect old video games. But all my physical media just sits on my shelves and collects dust. Why do I even collect them? I literally just emulate everything. Is there a purpose to what I do? People ask me why I collect and I never have a real answer because I don't even know. If I never play my stuff, is it worth just selling?

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[โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I disagree on the last point, sure, the supply won't go up, but the demand is likely to go down. Prices have ballooned hard in the past several years. The bubble has to burst at some point

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    I guess time will tell. I kind of doubt demand is going to drop until the people who are nostalgic for these things start to die, and that is many years off. By that time supply will have dwindled even more.

    I think the exponential growth is a bubble that will burst but I'm not sure I can see values actually dropping.

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