Yagyu Jubei
Dodgeball Yakuza
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Geddon_jt's reply in another thread inspired me to start this thread. There has been a permanent market shift in Neo collecting and I wanted to get your opinions on this.
The AES market is saturated with fakes, bootlegs and conversions. Some of the European fakes are so sophisticated, they can be made to pass for the real thing. Unless you're happy playing launch titles, KOF and SS, having a large AES library will be extremely expensive.
Once you get into the rare AES carts (Slugs, BTG, Ninja Masters, Pulstar/Blazing Star, etc.), your risk of getting ripped off increase exponentially. Unless you know people on the forum, or buy from Shawn's store or have a trusted domestic or foreign seller, rare carts are going to be a crap shoot. It gets worse if you are seeking English carts, nevermind the drama that goes with them.
That leaves us with MVS. New and old collectors are scooping these up for various reasons. Once common carts, like Magician Lord, are soaring in price because there are less of these items in the marketplace. The new elegance of CMVS systems, shockboxes and inserts are also driving up demand.
Just like the OG collectors that are keeping their genuine AES carts, people are scooping up popular MVS titles and keeping them as well. When rare carts (like SSVS or Sengoku 2) come up on Ebay, the bidding wars are ruthless. These factors are driving up MVS prices and inspiring these same criminals into producing MVS bootlegs.
Ganryu and NITD are almost extinct in MVS format. SS3, KOF96 and FF3 AES carts are headed that way too, thanks to conversions. Will genuine MVS carts, untouched by greedy cart-killers, be the most sought-after Neo Geo product?
5-10 years ago, you could buy most MVS carts for under $50. Now a fair price is almost double that, and in some cases, much much more. Is MVS becoming AES 2.0?
The AES market is saturated with fakes, bootlegs and conversions. Some of the European fakes are so sophisticated, they can be made to pass for the real thing. Unless you're happy playing launch titles, KOF and SS, having a large AES library will be extremely expensive.
Once you get into the rare AES carts (Slugs, BTG, Ninja Masters, Pulstar/Blazing Star, etc.), your risk of getting ripped off increase exponentially. Unless you know people on the forum, or buy from Shawn's store or have a trusted domestic or foreign seller, rare carts are going to be a crap shoot. It gets worse if you are seeking English carts, nevermind the drama that goes with them.
That leaves us with MVS. New and old collectors are scooping these up for various reasons. Once common carts, like Magician Lord, are soaring in price because there are less of these items in the marketplace. The new elegance of CMVS systems, shockboxes and inserts are also driving up demand.
Just like the OG collectors that are keeping their genuine AES carts, people are scooping up popular MVS titles and keeping them as well. When rare carts (like SSVS or Sengoku 2) come up on Ebay, the bidding wars are ruthless. These factors are driving up MVS prices and inspiring these same criminals into producing MVS bootlegs.
Ganryu and NITD are almost extinct in MVS format. SS3, KOF96 and FF3 AES carts are headed that way too, thanks to conversions. Will genuine MVS carts, untouched by greedy cart-killers, be the most sought-after Neo Geo product?
5-10 years ago, you could buy most MVS carts for under $50. Now a fair price is almost double that, and in some cases, much much more. Is MVS becoming AES 2.0?
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