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That's quite true.. nobody will have it cause everyone either traded it in or destroyed their disc..

WarioWare: Touched (DS) - Came out in the first year of the DS and less than a million were made.  Still hard to find at used game stores.

Kirby Canvas Curse (DS) - See WarioWare

Dragon Quest IV-VI (DS): Each of these had a limited run, especially DQV which only got like 200,000 made outside Japan.

Henry Hatsworth (DS): Another great game with a limited run which hurt its sales.  Never seen this game used in a store.

Retro Game Challenge (DS): If you want a textbook case of a game being under printed, its this.  Virtually all of its 50,000 sales WAS the entire first printing.  The publishers, XSeed, then blamed its low sales for the lack of a second printing or bringing its sequel, Game Center CX 2, to America.  Why do so many developers blame the fans for their failures on the DS and Wii....

Dragon Ball Origins (DS): In all fairness, perhas this game should remain rare.  It was like a weaker clone of Phantom HOurglass with VERY repetative dungeons and fighting.  But still, its hard to come by.

Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Picollo (Wii): Similar to Dragon Ball Origins.  Not the best game out there, but still will be rare over time because of such a small printing.

Valkaria Chronicles (PS3) - Enough were made...people just don't sell it.  And for good reason.

Atelier Rorona (PS3) - To my knowledge, they made less than 500,000 copies of this outside Japan.

Little Kings Story (Wii) - Talk about a flop.  The game had hype, but fell completely flat in sales.  There's still plenty of store shelves, but I doubt it got a second print.  Once those initial copies slowly sell, it'll be gone.

Zack and Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii): Why do all the Wii and DS games get this treatment?  This game actually had a good marketing capaign and plenty of stock, but was completely overlooked by the early Wii push.  Like Canvas Curse and WarioWaqre on the DS, thisgame got overlooked for coming out in the first year.  There's still copies on the store shelves, but it should get quite rare soon.

Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii) - Only two printings of the game that sold about 700,000 copies.  And few people sell the game back to stores.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Wii) - About 500,000 have sold worldwide and there's still some left on store shelves.  But soon, it'll be quite rare.

Alot of jrpgs like the recent ps3 exclusive ones they got high pretty quick. Also radiant historia for the ds

I'm holding on to my copy. I enjoyed it enough the first time around but I think it will REALLY interesting to come back to in a few years.

Reasons why its rare:

Sold poorly.

Considered a massive flop.

Critics hated it.

Caused a respected developer to go under.

One of the few PS3 games playable via remote play on the PSP.

The music if fucking fantastic (John Debny of course)

Dragons are still really cool :p

Radiant Historia. One of the best DS RPGs and terrible undershipped.

3D dot game heroes maybe? iam still trying to find it

As long as there's a lasting niche for a given game and the production run for that game was either intentially limited (Metroid Trilogy) or simply limited by the audience (quite a few Atlas games) yet the game is still well-loved by its niche audience (think JRPGs), a game has the potential to be worth more than it was when it retailed new. Persona games can fall into this category.

VC has the potential (limited audience/production, well-loved), but since I have no idea what the production run was on it, or whether there are a ton of surplus copies floating around at bargain bin pricing...

Demon's Souls would if it weren't dependent upon online servers to really get the full experience of the game (once shut down, it loses much of its appeal) and the fact that it was a Greatest Hits, meaning it was reprinted/reissued.

Being reissued as a Platinum/Greatest Hits generally reduces the chances of a game being a "collectible" years down the road, even if you have an original issue copy.

Falls into the "Atlus category." Wouldn't be surprised.

you can get a brand new one off of amazon for $12