Originally posted by: Andy_Bogomil
Ha, the list and information is almost more impressive than the set itself. Great work gathering all that data and making a complete list for such a large library of games, many of which are extremely hard to find. I feel like we're already going up the other side of the valley. Most of the stores around here are picked clean of 'good' Wii titles and have been for some time. Also a lot of rares going up in price quite rapidly. Congrats on the set!
Yeah I disagree about this being a prime time to get into Wii. Still a "good" time perhaps, but when Mensa has gone from $30 to $300, the market is ripe with speculators and people willing to key on the "next big thing". I think the best time to get into Wii was probably 2014-2015, though doing it now is still going to be better than 5 years from now.
Also, I'd expect Mensa to be topped out at these levels with little room for growth. The high price tag will bring out more copies and people will try to sit on those copies thinking that it is worth it based on past sales. The BINs will stagnate and as auctioned copies start bringing less, it will gradually cool. Then people will pile into the next big thing (Maximum?) and those prices will get higher before stalling as well. This is the normal speculative cycle of when a system is collected though... this already happened with Fritz Chess. It was "the rare game" for a little while there (2013ish?), but it's value has done nothing but stagnate ever since.