- Joined
- Apr 3, 2011
- Posts
- 5,843
Talking just Japanese AES here
To me, it’s a weird thought that two high profile games launched in 1998 - Metal Sug 2 and King of Fighters 98 - yet one is over 10 times as expensive as the other. I know rarity isn’t the same as value, but it does play a role here. KOF 98 is a routinely $200 - $300 homecart, MS2 is around $4000 it seems, sometimes more. Clearly there’s still plenty of KOF 98s to go around.
Would you say MS2 is really over 10 times rare as KOF 98, thus has that many fewer legit copies to go around? Or is it just the massive universal appeal of Metal Slug that has kept those games expensive?
To me, it’s a weird thought that two high profile games launched in 1998 - Metal Sug 2 and King of Fighters 98 - yet one is over 10 times as expensive as the other. I know rarity isn’t the same as value, but it does play a role here. KOF 98 is a routinely $200 - $300 homecart, MS2 is around $4000 it seems, sometimes more. Clearly there’s still plenty of KOF 98s to go around.
Would you say MS2 is really over 10 times rare as KOF 98, thus has that many fewer legit copies to go around? Or is it just the massive universal appeal of Metal Slug that has kept those games expensive?
