Why Are You Mad At Gamestop? You Should Be Mad At Nintendo.

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SSJGohan3972 said:
Not mad at either, I picked up the game when it was relatively new for $50 because I knew - like most Nintendo games - it would either a) stay at full price for a long, long time (4-5 years easy) or b) be rare and quickly hard to find without paying even more than $50. Why is this news to everyone? This is how nintendo works because their games are nearly all high quality and their replayability is very high. If you want games in the bargin bin go get them but the best ones are full price and/or hard to come by and that's just how it works.

PS. Still haven't gotten around to playing more than about an hour of the game because I don't have time for a big RPG at the moment (also have the Wii Fire Emblem to play as well) but still glad I picked it up.

Earthbound was selling for $10 when SNES was around, and guess where I saw it last time I saw it retail? In the bargin bin.

A complete copy now sells for $400+, new is over $1,000.

Still, when was the last time Nintendo has made a high quality JRPG like this? All Nintendo JRPG's go up in value over time, and rarely sell for less then $50, Earthbound and Startropics are kinda oddballs (Startropics is worth very little). XenoBlade, Fire Emblem, Paper Mario, Super Mario RPG, Baten Kaitos, etc. I always get Nintendo JRPG's new because of this though.