#BUY ORIGINAL XBOX SERIES#

Like I said before, it also just runs that generation of games better than the other two consoles. The Xbox has plenty of strange and quirky games that are exclusive to the console.

#BUY ORIGINAL XBOX SERIES#

With the advent of backwards compatibility coming to the Xbox Series S/X, that is going to change. After all, go into Retro game stores, they have plenty of Xbox titles to go around. I got into Xbox collecting because it seemed like an easy collection to get. I own the controller and game, and itвЂ™s definitely an experience that you need to see to believe. Steel Battalion might be the most exclusive experience for the Xbox though. The top end of the Xbox range might be getting to that point, but you can also play certain games on other consoles. If you look at the prices for some GameCube and PlayStation 2 titles, theyвЂ™re getting to levels that are pretty untenable for the average collector. Reconsidering The Sega Saturn Through The Price Increases, The Time Is Still Now For Xbox Collecting There are other games like Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis that have actually gone down in price, but I think thatвЂ™s people realizing that you can play that game and have a great experience with it, elsewhere. But games like Futurama, Stubbs the Zombie, Teen Titans, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Def Jam: Fight for NY, and OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast have all broken their trends. Steel Battalion and the controller doesnвЂ™t really count. Looking at the top around eight games that I would call rare. In some cases, the price is skyrocketing still, in others prices are fairly stable, and in some like Steel Battalion and itвЂ™s huge box, the prices swing pretty wildly. ThatвЂ™s not showing the increases for the higher dollar and rare games for the system. And thatвЂ™s just movement for the average game. March 2020 hits, and boom, that $7 turns into almost $12. Prices on the average complete Xbox game were at around $7 for almost three years without any solid movement. Thanks to our friends at GameValueNow and their price graphs, we can see the average price of an Xbox game rising from the start of the pandemic. So right now, the most expensive games on the Xbox are even more expensive. Prices Rise And Hold For the Xbox The behemoth of the Steel Battalion controller And possibly most of the variants on the Original Xbox. I have most of those original Xbox games that I owned at the start, still. I donвЂ™t want to stop at the games I had when I was a kid. Except I went a bit further with that collecting. Turns out people stuck inside all day, still want to play those old games from their youth. So even a system that was pretty affordable from the most expensive games down to the bottom, like the Xbox, had massive price increases for itвЂ™s rarest games. The pandemic accelerated prices across the board for all consoles. Xbox doesnвЂ™t have either of these things for their first machine.Д¬ollectors for Retro Video Games know how these things work. PlayStation Two collectors have a wide library of relatively obscure RPG games among a large library of titles in the thousands. The GameCube might not have sold many copies or have a large library, but because itвЂ™s a Nintendo console, it has that built-in collector floor. The Xbox falls into this gap between the two consoles. GameCube Dominates Prices, PlayStation Two Dominates Number Of Games But this is an article about collecting for the original Xbox. They also donвЂ™t look terrible, even when compared to todayвЂ™s powerhouse games. With that power in the system, the games for it are amazing. But the original Xbox is a goldmine for collecting. But it got thoroughly dominated by the PlayStation 2.ДЇor good reason, the PlayStation 2 is one of the best consoles of all-time. Third-party releases just ran and looked better on the Xbox. It was far and away the most powerful console from a technical standpoint. The original Xbox is an enigma of that console generation for me. (Great games for a 5th grader to be playing, but I turned out fine, so suck it Jack Thompson). I got Conker Live and Reloaded, Halo, Halo 2, and Oddworld: StrangerвЂ™s Wrath to go with it. And I plopped down the, I think it was $150, for a used Xbox. So I got together every dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, and even penny that I could find. After all, it was like 2005 and the next generation consoles were coming soon. One day, the idea popped into my head to save and scrounge up for a used Xbox from GameStop. Then I got a PlayStation 2 for Christmas and waited on the other consoles of that generation. The original Microsoft Xbox was not one of my favorite consoles when it released.

Buy original xbox