You can use this guide to help decide which systems to start collecting. When deciding between Nintendo 64 or Super Nintendo, you can keep in mind N64 would cost a little less than $2,000 while SNES would cost about $7,600.
Vintage Consoles
| System | Price |
|---|---|
| Atari 2600 | $9,127 |
| Nintendo NES | $8,814 |
| Super Nintendo | $7,583 |
| Playstation | $7,930 |
| Commodore 64 | $7,643 |
| Neo Geo | $7,418 |
| Sega Genesis | $4,526 |
| Sega Master System | $4,145 |
| Gameboy Color | $3,895 |
| TurboGrafx-16 | $3,686 |
| 3DO | $3,343 |
| Sega Saturn | $3,138 |
| Sega Dreamcast | $2,708 |
| Sega CD | $2,430 |
| Virtual Boy | $2,185 |
| CD-i | $1,973 |
| Nintendo 64 | $1,921 |
| Jaguar | $1,858 |
| Colecovision | $1,697 |
| Vectrex | $1,693 |
| Sega Game Gear | $1,505 |
| Neo Geo Pocket Color | $1,241 |
| Atari 5200 | $1,174 |
| Intellivision | $1,139 |
| Atari 7800 | $839 |
| Atari Lynx | $829 |
| Odyssey 2 | $673 |
| N-Gage | $276 |
Modern Consoles
| System | Price |
|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | $14,405 |
| Playstation 3 | $12,401 |
| Xbox 360 | $13,013 |
| Wii | $11,528 |
| Playstation 2 | $10,230 |
| Gameboy Advance | $5,864 |
| PSP | $5,038 |
| Xbox | $3,686 |
| Gamecube | $3,629 |
| Nintendo 3DS | $1,051 |
18 comments :
Ouch! The price of a DS collection... And PS3 is already more expensive that PS2? That's a very interresting piece of information (not that I was planning on beginning a complete collection of any system :p)
Wow, this is a great idea for an article. I might have to try and collect the entire N-Gage system collection just so I can say that I own every single game for a particular system.
@Matt - DS has a lot of games and quite a few of them still sell for near retail prices. Same with PS3 vs PS2. PS2 games have had years to depreciate in value while PS3 games have not.
@Travis - Glad you like the article. N-gage would definitely be an easy system to collect in terms of the total price paid. You probably wouldn't get much gaming fun out of that $276 though.
great idea. do these numbers also include the "holy grails" of the consoles?
@anonymous - the "holy grails" are not included unless they are a regularly released, licensed game. For example, Nintendo World Championships is not included because it was part of a video game competition. Hot Slots for NES is not included because it was unlicensed.
Just think how much money you have coughed up buying all those games as new releases. It's mind blowing.
Is this for complete games? Like CIB SNES games?
@aonymous - It is for cartridge or disc only games. Not CIB (Complete in Box).
Hi JJ - I have a couple of questions to ask you...
1. How did you get these total amounts? Are these just averages from your list on game prices?
2. Since each total price is based on loose or used games, what do you think the total price for each collection would be if the games were CIB (Complete in Box)? For example, if the value of the complete collection for NES games are almost $9,000 - if all of the games were CIB do you think it would be double or triple times more?
By the way, I think you forgot to list Sega 32X
@anonymous - The totals were a sum of all the used game values for every game released for that particular system. We have the value for each individual game so we can calculate the total for all games.
I can let you know the CIB price within a few months. We are working to get our system to track CIB prices for each game. I will update this article with the CIB prices. I bet NES will be the most expensive by a long shot.
Any chance of getting a complete collection cost of an original gameboy? Not the color, not the advance, just the original gameboy.
Also, a complete list of CIB prices would be awesome, though quite expensive XD.
this is wrong stadium events which is an offical release for the NES is worth almost 7 grand on its own. I think you need to check your values again. there are over 700 NES games your price puts that at 12 a game which is way off. and that is only counting offical releases. unoffical releases added in and you are looking at almost 40 grand/
Not to mention there are *several* Neo Geo games that currently go for more than what you're saying the entire NG library would cost. These figures are QUITE a bit off in some cases...
collector, did you even see the date of this article? In 2011 stadium events was only around 2500 so I would believe these numbers. Also, where do you get over 700 from? There are only 677 official releases. Give or take a few if you count variants.
Nuts. That´s all I can call this list.
Not even close to reality.
I´m glad the author forgot to list my fav system: GAMEBOY!?
His calculation would be a joke anyway.
Stadium events was not a licensed Nintendo product until they bought it then they rename the game world class track meet or whatever it was called
Oh.
Hm.
We need an updated version of this..
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