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2008 Game & Publisher Resale Values

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - This report looks at the Publishers, Consoles, and Games with the best and worst resale values. It includes over 1,000 games released during 2008 for Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, Playstation 3, and Playstation 2. read more →

The Recession Hurts Used Game Market Too

Thursday, January 1, 2009 -
The chart above shows the average video game price on a daily basis during 2008. The prices follow the same basic trend we have seen in years past. Some highlights from the data:

2008 Game Price Highlights

• Starting Price: January 1st | $12.69
• Lowest Price: November 3rd | $8.57
• End of Year Price: December 31st | $9.68
• Peak to Trough Decrease: -32.5%
• End of Year Increase: +13.0%
• Yearly Price Decrease: -23.7%

These numbers are more meaningful when compared to 2007's prices. See the chart below:

(The chart is indexed so both years start at 1. This make comparisons much easier)

2007 Game Price Highlights

• Peak to Trough Decrease: -30.4%
• End of Year Increase: +26.6%
• Yearly Price Decrease: -11.8%

Recession Hurts Used Video Game Market Too

As you can see from the chart and the numbers above, the resale prices in 2008 decreased more than in 2007. But all of this difference occurs in the second half of the year. During the first half of the year 2007 and 2008 prices followed each other very closely. But July 30th was the last day the 2008 prices were higher than 2007's. During the last five months of 2008 the prices continued to separate and showed the biggest difference during the annual holiday price spike. The holiday increase was +26.6% in '07 but only +13.0% in '08. read more →

Average or Median: Which To Choose

Monday, December 29, 2008 - A good number of readers and users of VGPC asked to see the average price for all games for each console and a chart to show the pricing history like we do for individual games. During some of the preliminary research into adding the feature I ran into an interesting dilemma. Do we show an average price or a median price? Which one we choose makes a big difference in the price we would show. Let me use the NES as an example. The average NES price is $17.55 while the median is $3.09. Why is there such a big difference? read more →