Are games today really worth the asking price?

[disolitude]

sethnintendo said:

disolitude said:
They are not.

Anything that you buy and own for a month and have to resell at half the cost wasn't worth the initial cost to begin with.

There isn't am electronics product I can think of that loses value as fast as video games do.

Rare games (especially boxed) increase in value.  Just look at some of the rare games on NES that sell for 20,000+ boxed.  I would say collecting video games is on par with collecting sports cards.  I used to be a big time card collector but collecting video games is more fun to me (considering you can actually play them too).  Sure it ruins the value opening them but eventually with time the value will be the same as you originally bought it or greater.  I remember during the 16 bit era you could buy tons of Atari 2600 cartridges for barely anything.  I am pretty sure those 2600 cartridges are worth more now. 

True but that is because of people that have too much money lol. There was a sealed iphone 1 that went on ebay for 10k few weeks ago... Same reason. 

I'm surprised developers and publishers don't want a cut out of Atari 2600 cartrige sales the way things are going...