The other day I bought God Hand. There were three reasons for doing this: one, I've heard it's a great game, two, it was on sale, and three, it was the last copy. It's still in it's original packaging, and I'm not going to be able to get to it for a while, but I bought it anyway. The reason is, or at least how I justified it, was that I look around and everyone is blowing out their games in a rush to clear their shelves for PS3, Xbox 360 and the Wii. Already if you look at Best Buy, their Gamecube section is limited to a small handful of games, and it won't be much longer until that section and the Xbox section is dropped completely.
Right now I see stores everywhere getting rid of their products as fast as they can, and so I have the Fear. Not the MGS3 variety, but the fear that I won't be able to buy the last gen games that I haven't gotten around to yet, and that they'll simply disappear. I'm scared that in a few months I'm not going to be able to find them again, outside of maybe getting lucky at a flea market somewhere.
Is anyone else feeling the same thing? There aren't too many retailers that feel like keeping old stock around. EB and Gamestop are too small to be able to keep last gen stock , and larger stores like Best Buy don't seem to think there's any point in it. At this point, in my town, it's rare to find any Dreamcast games around and I would even say it's rare to find good PS1 games around. The gaming retailing industry has a bad habit of getting rid of their stock quick, and I feel like I lost out in the PS1/DC gen by not getting some of the games I wanted, and now they're seemingly impossible to find.
So as a result, even though I don't have the time to play these games yet, I've bought them anyway just so I won't find myself in a situation where I can't buy them.
Games I've recently hastily purchased out of fear:
Resident Evil 0
Yakuza
God Hand
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Soul Calibur 3
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Games I'm still looking for:
Outrun 2
Outrun 2 Coast to Coast
Psychonauts
Right now I see stores everywhere getting rid of their products as fast as they can, and so I have the Fear. Not the MGS3 variety, but the fear that I won't be able to buy the last gen games that I haven't gotten around to yet, and that they'll simply disappear. I'm scared that in a few months I'm not going to be able to find them again, outside of maybe getting lucky at a flea market somewhere.
Is anyone else feeling the same thing? There aren't too many retailers that feel like keeping old stock around. EB and Gamestop are too small to be able to keep last gen stock , and larger stores like Best Buy don't seem to think there's any point in it. At this point, in my town, it's rare to find any Dreamcast games around and I would even say it's rare to find good PS1 games around. The gaming retailing industry has a bad habit of getting rid of their stock quick, and I feel like I lost out in the PS1/DC gen by not getting some of the games I wanted, and now they're seemingly impossible to find.
So as a result, even though I don't have the time to play these games yet, I've bought them anyway just so I won't find myself in a situation where I can't buy them.
Games I've recently hastily purchased out of fear:
Resident Evil 0
Yakuza
God Hand
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Soul Calibur 3
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Games I'm still looking for:
Outrun 2
Outrun 2 Coast to Coast
Psychonauts