Xplay has come back hard and fast, putting out TV-quality content like they used to on YouTube and outdoing a lot of other games media very quickly in the process. I think this is their first...
Xplay has come back hard and fast, putting out TV-quality content like they used to on YouTube and outdoing a lot of other games media very quickly in the process. I think this is their first journalistic piece and it's a good one.
Oh shit, I just realised that's Jirard from The Completionist. To be honest, this whole vid feels a bit disjointed. The first four minutes were him rambling about the pandemic and scalpers in a...
Oh shit, I just realised that's Jirard from The Completionist.
To be honest, this whole vid feels a bit disjointed. The first four minutes were him rambling about the pandemic and scalpers in a way that could maybe have been condensed into a sentence or a paragraph. He doesn't get into the meat of how WATA Games and Heritage Auctions are manipulating the retro game market for their own financial gain until about five minutes in.
Another thing that surprises me is how he used a photo of a Nintendo World Championships cartridge in one of these arguments about the scarcity (or lack thereof) of retro games. The NWC 1990 cartridge is genuinely one of the rarest collector's items that fetches well above $15,000 at auction. To my knowledge only a few hundred were ever produced or distributed, mainly to winners of a Nintendo Power competition.
Xplay has come back hard and fast, putting out TV-quality content like they used to on YouTube and outdoing a lot of other games media very quickly in the process. I think this is their first journalistic piece and it's a good one.
Though (and Xplay give this too), a lot of credit should go to Karl Jobst who broke this story and did a deep dive into the situation last August.
Previous and more in depth conversation, video, and other discussions here: https://tild.es/y6z
Oh shit, I just realised that's Jirard from The Completionist.
To be honest, this whole vid feels a bit disjointed. The first four minutes were him rambling about the pandemic and scalpers in a way that could maybe have been condensed into a sentence or a paragraph. He doesn't get into the meat of how WATA Games and Heritage Auctions are manipulating the retro game market for their own financial gain until about five minutes in.
Another thing that surprises me is how he used a photo of a Nintendo World Championships cartridge in one of these arguments about the scarcity (or lack thereof) of retro games. The NWC 1990 cartridge is genuinely one of the rarest collector's items that fetches well above $15,000 at auction. To my knowledge only a few hundred were ever produced or distributed, mainly to winners of a Nintendo Power competition.
I do agree with one thing though, Karl Jobst has covered the whole WATA Games and Heritage Auctions issue in far greater detail and his video is definitely worth a watch, and unlike G4, he's not afraid of a lawsuit.