| Cerebralbore101 said: You are missing the point of this thread. From a collector's standpoint physical PS2 games are cheap and easy to get. Other retro systems can get expensive tracking down physical games. I'm celebrating how affordable CIB physical PS2 games are. |
The thread title doesn't indicate that you rate the PS2 as "greatest system" from a collector's perspective.
And in the OT you are jumping between collecting and playing good game classics (which are different things with a different focus).
"I mean for real. Anybody that has kids and is struggling to keep them entertained during this pandemic, get yourself a PS2! Games can still be had for $10 to $15. And I'm not talking about A FEW games. I mean the vast majority of the PS2 library is still dirt cheap."
Here you are talking about entertaining kids (or yourself) by playing old PS2 games. But most of these games you (or your kids) can play in a much prettier version on a newer console system or on PC.
F. e. I still have the Kingdom Hearts games as PS2 versions. But you'd have to pay me money to play these versions in 480p instead of playing them in a much prettier version on PS4/5, Xbox One/Series or PC. PS2 graphics aged better than PS1 graphics, but they still aged badly without resolution boost by emulators/remasters.
I got this retail collection including 9 KH-games in 2019 for just €15, so less than $2 per game:
Also the $10 to $15 per used PS2 games will be for standard editions.
The standard editions on all game systems from the year 2000 and above are quite boring IMHO: a standardized cheap plastic case with the bare minimum of content.
For PS2 games:
- an Amaray case (same format as DVD movies)
- a paper cover around the Amaray case
- the DVD-disc
- a (in most cases generic) manual, which has to fit in the small space of the Amaray case
- in some cases 1-2 pages quickstart guide or ad for other games
I prefer one special/collector's edition (or a PC big box of the '80s and '90s) with interesting content over a dozen generic standard editions, when it comes to collecting retail games, but that's just me.
Last edited by Conina - on 07 March 2021
