What do think about the longer term future of our collecting? I think a lot of people in this forum are in their 40's and 50's and almost no one is in their teens and 20's.
I'm going to make 2 threads, one for us to pontificate on 2015, and the other on 2050.
My personal guess about 2015 is that things will still be trending upward.
* The top pins will get even more expensive, but more and more of them will have been restored and maintained.
* There will be more fairly obscure games that will create feeding frenzies and some of the ones everyone got excited about will fade (I say warlords cocktails are MORE expensive and Reactor prices will fall).
* The bottom prices of the market will stay stable. $75 will still be a steal for a working vid.
* Minis will still be scarce, but prices won't change.
* Hoarders will finally get crazy high enough prices to sell off their inventories of all of their NOS and NIB stockpiles before they start to degrade to the point that the repros actually become more valuable (since they're 35 years newer).
* MAME and multi-games will continue to evolve and will hammer the retail market for refurbished games (no more sales of $1200 1981 Ms. Pac's)
* More products will come for MAME on the TV and that will hurt the new Multi cabinet sales
What do you think?
What did I miss?
I'm going to make 2 threads, one for us to pontificate on 2015, and the other on 2050.
My personal guess about 2015 is that things will still be trending upward.
* The top pins will get even more expensive, but more and more of them will have been restored and maintained.
* There will be more fairly obscure games that will create feeding frenzies and some of the ones everyone got excited about will fade (I say warlords cocktails are MORE expensive and Reactor prices will fall).
* The bottom prices of the market will stay stable. $75 will still be a steal for a working vid.
* Minis will still be scarce, but prices won't change.
* Hoarders will finally get crazy high enough prices to sell off their inventories of all of their NOS and NIB stockpiles before they start to degrade to the point that the repros actually become more valuable (since they're 35 years newer).
* MAME and multi-games will continue to evolve and will hammer the retail market for refurbished games (no more sales of $1200 1981 Ms. Pac's)
* More products will come for MAME on the TV and that will hurt the new Multi cabinet sales
What do you think?
What did I miss?


