The bubble will pop within a month or so it always does when people get bored or tired of the one little unique thing about the game. I run a used retro videogame store it happens all the time.
That's just the way it goes. Sometimes I'll see a creator talk about something that I know I'll like and I'll immediately head to eBay and snag a copy before it gets too expensive. Dankpods talked about this 90s VR book and I knew I had to have it. Paid 5 bucks. In 24 hours it was already fetching 50. Now a year later it's back down to 8 bucks. I just thought it was funny that your one tweet about creepy music spawned a whole slew of memes. Bravo!
I think people are just going to forget about it after a while but there will probably still be a few people who care enough about it for it to still have some more demand than before the big price jump. I bet this game after a few months will drop to around 30 dollars on average give or take.
Prices have already started going down as more copies are being available. A day ago it was 30ish available, now there’s 100+ on eBay. I don’t blame sellers for trying to make some money off this. It’s really just the suckers that are buying this out of FOMO. Seen this game for $2 a few weeks ago at a thrift store, did not get it and still don’t care. Good video though, the phantom dust comparison is a good indication for how this will turn out for people speculating prices.
Yeah it's really weird how everyone's lizard brain works. I used to fall into that trap as well. Now that I have been actually playing games instead of collecting them there's a lot in my collection that have me going "wait, why do I have this?" and then I sell them to use the money to buy things I really want instead of what everyone else has.
As one of the few who actually grew up with this weird piglet game, it's so surreal to see what felt like a novel and personal experience previously condemned to obscurity to completely blow up online. I see a lot of people asserting this is simply a fad, that the game will drop in price and fade back intro obscurity, but I don't think it will; at least not entirely. While it doesn't hold a candle to your stereotypical grandiose titles of prestigious award, it still remains a genuinely compelling experience, in retrospect to when it came out, and still to this day.
By the way the PS2 copy of this game has a 50K print run. That's 5 times the amount of truly uncommon games because 10K is the minimum print run. 50K is plenty for most 6th generation games to stay under $100 or even under $50. Another speculative game that is at 50K is Barbies Horse Adventures on xbox. RUclipsrs pumped it and it went to nearly 50-60 dollars and that was 8 years ago but now it's maybe a 20-30 dollar game and with inflation is even lower. Granted that game is terrible unlike this game but it surely won't sustain the price once speculation/interest dies but will be elevated above normal probably forever. If the game is near $100 in 3 years I'll be shocked but maybe this game will become the next Def Jam Fight For NY (a classic must have) but I doubt it. It being a horror adjacent game helps but there are MANY games like that Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights, Psychonauts, Grabbed by the Ghoulies etc.. and those games are pretty good and much cheaper. Don't FOMO, seriously it will go down.
Bro I was literally looking at pricecharting for this game just last night HAHA its always games that scream "hey have you heard of this really weird obscure PS2 horror game?" that will sudden jack up in prices because of some memes these days. I always suggest people doing their own research at looking at a certain console's game library for finding titles that might peak their interest and not just always rely on someone "hidden gems" youtube video before a certain game gets it's resurgence in the mainstream. Also are you gonna do an updated video for the Silent Hill franchise?
I have been thinking of playing the PS2 version since I own a Backwards compatible PS3 and that it upscales the games, but I have not been able to get a copy and all the game stores I called didn’t have the game, so I had to play the GBA version, hopefully the price goes down so then I can finally play this game, good thing tiggers honey hunt and Winnie the poohs rumbly tumbly adventure are still cheap, I have played them before and they are good
Yeah, this is a game. I definitely slept on. It’s like you said at the end , maybe I’ll just emulate instead if I ever wanna try it out and see what all the fuss is about.
@@SuperNicktendo Because they want to stroke their e-peen to other people on the internet that they have a box and a disc when intelligent people who value their money would not spent $150 on a game that no one cared about until some retro tuber made a buzz about it.
@SuperNicktendo im not buying the game at all I am priced out of the hubby due to influencers peddling stuff like this. It's simple cause and affect that's drives the prices up due to some of these influencer talking about these games. You answered your own questions in your own video. I really don't think 2020 helped things either both a combo of youtube and nobody being able to go anywhere did not help the market.
@@SuperNicktendo people wouldn’t be paying that unless people were talking about it and hooping hollering about it and then peoples do what people do buy it to try to turn a profit
The gamer part of me thinks that the people who are buying into this crap deserves to get scammed. It’s the people’s fault who are willing to pay these prices and deserve to get scammed.(shout out to emulation). The collector part of me is really disappointed in the state of things and really wish things were different.
yeah it's really crazy. I have just been researching games that I might like and have found them for reasonable prices before waiting for a youtuber or other part of the internet to make it popular.
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Do you think Piglet's Big Game will drop in value or will it stay high from here on out?
Yeah, more than likely it’ll probably drop in value after people get bored of the memes.
@@PKInTheUniverse It'll drop in value it's mostly just dumdums who can't into emulation trying to buy in on fomo.
it'll drop back to 20 or 30 in a month or so
I wonder how many times I passed over this in a goodwill. Wild times we are in
The bubble will pop within a month or so it always does when people get bored or tired of the one little unique thing about the game. I run a used retro videogame store it happens all the time.
It will most likely go down to around $50. But it won’t go back down to $15
Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. 30 at the lowest.
Good video!!
The price increase is a damn shame, but I knew it was coming the second I saw my tweet blowing up sadly.
That's just the way it goes. Sometimes I'll see a creator talk about something that I know I'll like and I'll immediately head to eBay and snag a copy before it gets too expensive. Dankpods talked about this 90s VR book and I knew I had to have it. Paid 5 bucks. In 24 hours it was already fetching 50. Now a year later it's back down to 8 bucks. I just thought it was funny that your one tweet about creepy music spawned a whole slew of memes. Bravo!
It's like alien resurrection all over again :)
I think people are just going to forget about it after a while but there will probably still be a few people who care enough about it for it to still have some more demand than before the big price jump. I bet this game after a few months will drop to around 30 dollars on average give or take.
Prices have already started going down as more copies are being available. A day ago it was 30ish available, now there’s 100+ on eBay. I don’t blame sellers for trying to make some money off this. It’s really just the suckers that are buying this out of FOMO.
Seen this game for $2 a few weeks ago at a thrift store, did not get it and still don’t care.
Good video though, the phantom dust comparison is a good indication for how this will turn out for people speculating prices.
Yeah it's really weird how everyone's lizard brain works. I used to fall into that trap as well. Now that I have been actually playing games instead of collecting them there's a lot in my collection that have me going "wait, why do I have this?" and then I sell them to use the money to buy things I really want instead of what everyone else has.
As one of the few who actually grew up with this weird piglet game, it's so surreal to see what felt like a novel and personal experience previously condemned to obscurity to completely blow up online. I see a lot of people asserting this is simply a fad, that the game will drop in price and fade back intro obscurity, but I don't think it will; at least not entirely. While it doesn't hold a candle to your stereotypical grandiose titles of prestigious award, it still remains a genuinely compelling experience, in retrospect to when it came out, and still to this day.
I played this wayyyyy back as a kid. Back in those days there were hardly any video tutorials on it and were hard to find.
By the way the PS2 copy of this game has a 50K print run. That's 5 times the amount of truly uncommon games because 10K is the minimum print run. 50K is plenty for most 6th generation games to stay under $100 or even under $50. Another speculative game that is at 50K is Barbies Horse Adventures on xbox. RUclipsrs pumped it and it went to nearly 50-60 dollars and that was 8 years ago but now it's maybe a 20-30 dollar game and with inflation is even lower. Granted that game is terrible unlike this game but it surely won't sustain the price once speculation/interest dies but will be elevated above normal probably forever. If the game is near $100 in 3 years I'll be shocked but maybe this game will become the next Def Jam Fight For NY (a classic must have) but I doubt it. It being a horror adjacent game helps but there are MANY games like that Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights, Psychonauts, Grabbed by the Ghoulies etc.. and those games are pretty good and much cheaper. Don't FOMO, seriously it will go down.
You're the goat for breaking down the logic like that
Bro I was literally looking at pricecharting for this game just last night HAHA its always games that scream "hey have you heard of this really weird obscure PS2 horror game?" that will sudden jack up in prices because of some memes these days. I always suggest people doing their own research at looking at a certain console's game library for finding titles that might peak their interest and not just always rely on someone "hidden gems" youtube video before a certain game gets it's resurgence in the mainstream. Also are you gonna do an updated video for the Silent Hill franchise?
I'm working on an updated Silent Hill video. This time I'll include non-US releases.
This game is dropping in price in like a year.
I'd wager sooner than that. I give it until January.
I have been thinking of playing the PS2 version since I own a Backwards compatible PS3 and that it upscales the games, but I have not been able to get a copy and all the game stores I called didn’t have the game, so I had to play the GBA version, hopefully the price goes down so then I can finally play this game, good thing tiggers honey hunt and Winnie the poohs rumbly tumbly adventure are still cheap, I have played them before and they are good
Yeah, this is a game. I definitely slept on. It’s like you said at the end , maybe I’ll just emulate instead if I ever wanna try it out and see what all the fuss is about.
yeah I don't get why people are paying absurd amounts of money for the game when they can just emulate.
@@SuperNicktendo it really defies common sense
@@SuperNicktendo Because they want to stroke their e-peen to other people on the internet that they have a box and a disc when intelligent people who value their money would not spent $150 on a game that no one cared about until some retro tuber made a buzz about it.
It'll go down to about $50 to $70 bucks
Its because mind pulp just reviewed it. Dont believe me? Thats how i found your video because i watched theirs.
$150 is crazy.. no way that price holds. It should go down after a while but not to the old prices
All these videos do is raise up the price
no. people with more money than sense do. Stop paying $150 for a 12 dollar game and the price goes down. Pretty simple.
@@SuperNicktendo And what brings attention to this issue? I had no idea about this issue until now.
@@z0m813 are you going to spend $150 on this game right now? Or are you going to wait to see if it drops in price?
@SuperNicktendo im not buying the game at all I am priced out of the hubby due to influencers peddling stuff like this. It's simple cause and affect that's drives the prices up due to some of these influencer talking about these games. You answered your own questions in your own video. I really don't think 2020 helped things either both a combo of youtube and nobody being able to go anywhere did not help the market.
@@SuperNicktendo people wouldn’t be paying that unless people were talking about it and hooping hollering about it and then peoples do what people do buy it to try to turn a profit
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The gamer part of me thinks that the people who are buying into this crap deserves to get scammed. It’s the people’s fault who are willing to pay these prices and deserve to get scammed.(shout out to emulation). The collector part of me is really disappointed in the state of things and really wish things were different.
yeah it's really crazy. I have just been researching games that I might like and have found them for reasonable prices before waiting for a youtuber or other part of the internet to make it popular.
So. RUclipsrs are to blame for high game prices?
It's the people paying the high price for the game, but creators do increase the demand.