Do you ever get tired of coming in these threads and spewing nothing but hate? I just wonder if it wears on you at all.And that's exactly why it will never be rare, sought after, expensive, or collectable. There are enough Halo discs in the world for every man woman and child on Earth to keep a stack of 10 just to quote their ass when out of toilet paper.
So who cares if it isn't "collectable". It's just funny that you spend countless posts doing nothing but bitching about modern games in modern games threads. You obviously have no interest in most of the games you post hate about, yet you continue to troll the threads and nothing ever happens.Its the truth. Something with billions of prints in circulation isn't worth the plastic its pressed on let alone collectable .
Oh, you weren't trying to be negative here?They might remember it as the cursed console that brought to the console world mediocre PC FPS stagnation, rushed buggy games that could be patched later, nickle and diming DLC distribution models, focus on cheap easy vs mode online games while the single player experience has been gutted, and basically remembered for bringing us everything wrong with console gaming today. Joy.
Besides who wants to touch a used Xbox that might have been skeeted on by a 14 yr old worshipping Halo and Fast and the Furious?
Oh, you weren't trying to be negative here?
Oh, you weren't trying to be negative here?
Keeping for collector value was one of the uses presented. I am dismantling that idea as being futile.
It won't take Xbox generation kids to have nostalgia 20 years from now, because there are collectors today already all over the same era PS2 and GameCube, but nobody cares about original Xbox.
Super Mario Borthers is an unfair example because it game with the NES and Famicom. Those count as units sold as well. Similar to Wii Sports.
Before Xbox Live people who played console games online was around 15 people. MS started a revolution with the Xbox. Sure it might have happened eventually, but they were the ones who did it. Now, people without computers have broadband internet, just for playing XboxLive / PSN.
There are enough Halo discs in the world for every man woman and child on Earth to keep a stack of 10 just to wipe their ass when out of toilet paper.
he is saying that mario is MORE collectible than halo, and it has WAY more copies out there. which makes exdeath's point about the amount of items out there being the final determination of how collectible something is moot.
Burn it.
Xbox is the most generic, unendearing, disposable, and forgettable console there ever was, and every game made for it was a dime a dozen mainstream game with millions of discs stamped recklessly.. It will not be collectable at all.
rarity has much to do with it. Many of the old NES games that people pay a lot for have numerous examples that are missing the box and/or don't even load up anymore.
the original xbox is probably the best console that is out there for playing old school emulators on your living room tv. i know quite a few people who have them to play snes, genesis, nes, mame, neo geo, etc. and they all play flawlessly.
How many of those Super Mario Brothers carts even work? The NES cart was notoriously for bad design, same as the front loading system. A working copy of Super Mario Brothers, even having "sold" 40 million copies, is probably a lot harder to find than a working Halo 2 disc.
Halo 2 is easy to make copies of, and digitally back up. I understand the point you were making however.I'd wager the vast majority of them still work. A little isopropyl alcohol on the contacts can clean up nearly any used cartridge. That Halo 2 disc will degrade by the time it's 30 years old, and the NES cartridge will still work.