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Utterly ridiculous.That's a copy of a game that will never get played. It's utterly useless and ridiculous.
Then again, the important part of that cartridge has been perfectly emulated for a while. The only value of it has been rereleased on SNES, GBC, GBA, 3DS, and Switch.
Genuinely, why would anyone want this? Why wouldn't you want the cartridge with Duck Hunt, too? Or All-Stars (with SMW if possible)? Or thr handheld versions?
Everything related to collectionism is either some scam or money laundering done by rich people or over consumerism done by regular people.
Both sickens me
Nobody involved cares about the game. What happens is you sell it to yourself, thus "proving" it's worth that much, then sell it to some schmuck who thinks the value will be increasing in time.
..... And money laundering. I want to pay you to do a crime. You do the crime. Now you can't put "earned by crime" in the sheet for the IRS (actually you can) and thus we find something you own that is that much money worth to me. But IRS knows all the tricks in the book, so we both need something very "rare" and a corruptable appraiser and now I can buy that "rare" game you never unpacked from your childhood at that price. And badabing badaboom, money laundered. Ah also all my other criminal friends now can use this rare collectors item as a vehicle to get payed by me because its reusable. And now you also understand most of the art trade.
They pay for the seal, not for the game. Makes it even more ridiculous.
It’s not perfectly emulated. It’s emulated close enough that there aren’t any currently known useful glitches that aren’t emulated.
That said, it’s still ridiculous.
I see it as on par with buying art, or a relic. Sure that 3rd century goblet can be drank out of, but that's not why someone buys it. The argument I hear in my head is that "it's a part of history." While true, I don't think it's worth that to have in a private collection, but I could see its value in being displayed by a public institution. (I'm not defending the price, just the view that it does have value.)
Okay, but I'd say with the goblet, it's got purely artistic value because someone made it by hand and might be unique. Cartridges are machine made and the box artwork is mass-produced.