I’m interested in purchasing a Gamecube (I collect consoles as a hobby). This past few weeks, Nintendo released a “Limited Edition” Gamecube, Platinum in color. I was thinking that if I am going to buy 1 or 2 for collecting, I may as well make it those while they are still available… but if they are “limited” to say, 1/3 total production, I’m not going to bother.
I’ve tried googleing but I haven’t had any luck with numbers of the so-called “Limited Edition” that are/have been produced. Does anyone know?
They will be rarer than a normal 'Cube, but they will not be worth anymore. They will be readily available. Nintendo did the same thing with the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 controllers, and neither are worth more than their ordinary counterpart.
99.99% of anything made to be collectible never increases in value.
Of the remaining .01% some enjoy a brief "artificial market" caused by people who don't understand collectibles buying them and then reselling them to similiar people. This is similiar to the Dot Com Bubble the stock market experienced.
The death of Superman issue had a few weeks of this. That issue can now be found, mint condition, for a dollar or less in your average comic book store.
But, it’s possible that the videogame market is different. A quick study of the prices of other limited edition (I recall a Nintendo releasing limited edition platinum and ice blue Gameboys. IIRC one was of the GBpocket model the othe GBcolor.) gaming consoles is a good predictor of the value of this one.
Bottom Line- I’d say it’s a tactic to fool consumers so that they’ll buy more of them.
I wonder about Zelda carts… the first release was a gold cartridge, subsequent releases were the standard-issue gray.
I bought a tetris for the N64 the other day: $70 unopened. That game was almost impossible to find. But I’m the kind of guy that would buy a priceless stamp and use it on an envelope… with or without a need to waste money.
Bernse- Limited Edition means whatever the company wants it to mean. 100 million is a limited edition. One billion would technically be a limited edition. Unless a company manufactures an identical product until the heat death of the universe, its product is a limited edition.
Unless they give a specific number of units and some form of promise not to make more (only 100 of these statues will be made. Each comes with a certificate of authenticity. yada, yada)
I'm a fan of any NES game released without the Nintedo seal of approval myself. Of course, I get all my stuff at flea markets.
Which Zelda game? I admit to not owning a SNES, GBcolor or advanced or the Cube.
I don’t think consoles are collectible, since I have so many of them. However some of the games keep their value a long time. Mario 64 still fetches around $20. Zelda isn’t selling for much, I just looked cause I have a Ocarina of Time cart. But Mario is quite the money maker.
The most expensive video game I saw on ebay was a game in Japanese for a Neogeo (?) fetching $1,500 or so but that was some years back.
A few NES carts were gold. The ones that stick out seem to be the zelda games. I have 2 copies of it, and oddly enough, 2 working nintendos. I only remember where I got one… at a flea market for $5.
As far as video games go, I wonder how much a boxed copy of Final Fantasy 2 (US) or Phantasy Star 2 would cost now. I remember both going for about 60 - 70 when the games were released.
Hmm. I checked ebay, and there were two grey Zelda NES carts. They seem to be going for more than the gold carts. I could have sworn that the first Zelda was only available in gold.
And I couldn’t find a specific number mentioned. There’s plenty of other info, but no number.
It’s just “limited”
Which probably means that they haven’t decided how many they’re going to make. The run has to be big enough to meet most of the demand, but small enough so that people will buy the next limited edition color.
