Nintendo's recent hardware dominance has seen its share price reach record highs, and it seems that Aussies haven't been immune to the House of Mario's resurgence. New figures from industry tracker GfK Australia show that Nintendo had the highest selling portable games device (the DS) and the highest-selling next-gen console (the Wii) down under in the last three months, easily eclipsing Sony and Microsoft. Sony's Playstation 2 came in second, whilst the Xbox 360 comes in fourth, a factor contributed to by recent Halo 3 sales.
The Nerd Stash: “The PS3 marked a turning point in the industry, and among the sea of popular titles came the rare games that are worth more now than ever.”
I don’t collect games for their value I collect games I enjoyed playing. Many games I own are worth a lot of money but they must be games I want to play for me to purposely collect them. Most of this list isn’t games I would enjoy. I may have some of these games because I bought my friends PS2/3 Collection years ago and I never actually looked what was in it. It was a couple hundred games though still sitting in a box and I’m sure there are some good valuable games. I should go sift through it sometime.
I tend to agree for the most part rarity is linked to price
It's unusual that a rare game was popular with a few notable exceptions. Games released at the tail end of a consoles lifecycle which became popular years or decades later like little Samson on the NES or earthbound on SNES.
Or games that were banned after release in certain regions
Looking at this list there's nothing I'd be trying to collect either most of these games were fairly unpopular and bashed on their release leading to the scarcity seen now.
Especially NBA elite which I remember actually watching the news about how it got cancelled but had already shipped to retail it was so bad .
The Animal Crossing franchise may lean towards casual gaming, but it has laid the foundation for a future title to have a survival mode.
“As a reimagining of a classic 2D platformer, Rocket Knight remains one of my favourite modern examples of the genre so let's see why.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
"GfK Australia also released the latest install base figures for Australian gaming devices this afternoon. In next-gen consoles, the Xbox 360 is still in the lead, with 222,136 owners down under since launch. The Wii is quickly catching up, however, with a total of 167,899 units altogether. The PS3 has had 82,261 devices sold so far. In Australia, the 360 was first launched in March 2006, the Wii in December 2006, and the PS3 in March 2007."
222,136 = Xbox 360
167,899 = Wii
82,261 = pS3
Still waiting for a ( proper ) pricedrop on the PS3 console around here... Seems Sony could'nt care less around this part of the globe. The bundle deal that they have over here is not even worth buying for the amount of money they're charging us Aussies. Just way too much I reckon.
Guess we'll be the very last to ever get a good deal on the console/games. Shame on you Sony!
It's funny how they squeezed one last gen console in there (PS2) but only that one to make sure the PS3 was last.
With their PS3 is killing the 360 in Australia. The damn thing hasn't even sold 100k! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (my Bill Gates impression)
Sony better keep that PS2 around for another few years, its been there saving grace.
I guess all teh blind fanbois already bought their ps3s. With no games in sight sane ones will wait 6-10months to pick up one.