I suspect there might be an up tick once gen Y gets on the scene with income because there is some overlap with what boyh grnerations will have nostalgia for. I think the brunt of it will focus on GameCube/PS2/ Xbox... that might be like millennials regard the MegaDrive/SNES era.
6th gen of consoles haven't hit the boom yet. The prices have begun to go up a bit mostly PS2 stuff, but even Xbox has been seeing slight increases in prices.
Was looking at a lot of games that were only going for $40-60 a few months ago, now going for $80-90+.
Interesting points.
I always was under the impression that the prices were going up in correlation with how much exposure they were suddenly receiving on YouTube and other gaming-related sites around the same time.
The actual causation of the price booms is, obviously, a number of different influences coming together at once.
I guess I'm trying to pinpoint what the major causes might be, in order to better predict when the next increases could occur.
Also, it seems like interest in retro gaming has cooled off a bit, but my perception could be completely off there.
Back to the PS2 - this console in particular has a pretty big advantage when it comes to games - namely, that it's the best selling system of all -time, and we had no digital downloads. So, I think the sheer amount of games out there for it help keep the prices relatively stable.
Out of all the 26 games in my meager PS2 collection, only Chulip has really increased in price in the past two-three years. Interesting, yet odd game, btw.
I'm interested in hearing about the other PS2 games coming up in price, too!
But, IF the PS5 has disc-based backward compatibility, the market will shift rapidly - as we're already seeing with Xbox One