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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2026
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What I'm looking forward to seeing is how many scalpers that will buy it on the first day.
It would be kind of awesome if the scalpers paid the ridiculous sticker price for these, and then nobody bought them from the scalpers because nobody actually wants the goddamn thing.
That's what will happen. But it's likely they will also think 2k for a digital brick might not be the best thing to do with how expensive everything is.
And how no effort will be made to stop.them.
I think the effort won't be necessary. We're already discussing how 1200-1800(2000 after tax) is sounding insane. I think the argument for how a N64 costing $250 adjusted for inflation has lost it's value. We didn't have cellphones, internet plans (ok maybe aol), fees at every corner, a mountain of subscriptions, and whatever else is going on now. And there's no used game stores now--I mean for these digital bricks.
So it's time to sit back and eat some popcorn.