Your last point is very correct. Europe is a big place after all!

@@leighdappa not sure where you are in the UK but charity shops in London are sometimes awesome, found some ls3/4 games at ungodly low prices, some snes carts and once found the entire fullmetal alchemist manga series for £2 a book

@@leighdappa hm, for what it's worth, I've had pretty good times with cash converters. They ship nationwide and prior to buying something you can ask them to take pictures of the item to make sure it's all in good condition. I got some boxed 3ds systems from there and everything was all good, even honored my asking for extra bubble wrap incase it got damaged during shipping

I disagree about gaming shops, there's plenty of not only dedicated gaming shops, but dedicated retro-gaming shops!

He's also famous for hosting an entirely naked TV show. He was naked, the contestants were naked! I hope the camera man and the director were naked too. British TV at it's finest!

@@Toaster05 i did not know that one!! My head went straight to its a knockout Haha Gave naked attraction some inspiration clearly 🤣

@@gazwj I would say Google it but I'm actually quite a nice person and I don't wish that mental imagery on anyone.

@@Toaster05 yehhh thanks but no thanks not having that in my search history 🤣

Keith chegwin. If anyone has watched Ricky gervais show called “extras” then you may have seen Keith. He’s the pop knob in fanny guy 🤣

This is why I want GameCube switch online way too much work to get them working and the games are way too expensive these days

@@brandonscott3423 Dolphin emulator is free

@@epic6178 Bro, how many times people need to say this about emulation. Companies hold licenses back because of emulation it hurts the ability for Nintendo and other companies to release certain games legally if you keep pirating them, you think Square is gonna want to license Mario RPG for the NSO if people are willing to just pirate the damn game?

@@raptros But he owns the physical game... he can just create an ISO of his physical game from his disc and play the game on dolphin completely legally, no piracy at all. Emulation is not piracy. And besides... your argument is kind of backwards, people WILL pirate certain games as long as they are not available, if square would like to avoid people pirating their games as much as possible, the best thing they can do is sell their games, not selling them doesn't solve anything, just makes the problem worse. People want to buy old games, retrogaming is a huge market, new ports constantly comming out. For most consumers piracy is the last option, it is just a lot harder to do, as easy as it might seem to some, setting up an emulator with a comfortable controller set up, finding the roms, etc is hard for most people. Something they are willing to do only if they really really want to play the game or if they are already acquainted with tech and emulation. I don't blame emulation for the awful practices of a lot of companies regarding their legacy content. They want to create artificial scarcity and emulation at worst is a small fight against that. Not to mention a huge fight for preservation.

I live in Belgium and my father's coworker randomly gave me a steelbook version of Xenoblade Chronicles X, Rayman Legends, Project Zero and a Wii U console despite the fact I already owed one

Cex is wild as you will either get decent prices or stuff still expensive but not Quite at scalper prices Or you can get RE4 on Wii for 50 entire penny’s

HOW

@@Victini7472 I guess I got lucky. it was 2019 so maybe RE4 wasn’t as wanted back then?

I think they are great on prices for the most part They seem to price things up that are more popular etc so there are definitely games that are overpriced, but for the most part I find their stuff fair and better than most other places

I don’t think they are bad at all, especially give you have the benefits of being able to check the product in person. They do inflate the price of more recent stuff sometimes, but for retro games they are usually pretty fair, and sometimes a bit of a bargain compared to other places to buy.

@@Zveebo it seems to vary wildly from store to store. My local has some crazy pricing going on at times but it's a small town store, I'd expect London prices to maybe be more competitive due to competition.

The only things I've seen at Cex that I think are overpriced are GameCube games. TTYD costs £120 now.

@@Toaster05 The prices at CEX are done by an external pricing team the whole company follows. All stores use the same EPOS system and should have the same prices unless they havent updated the price labels.

You are the “actually” meme lol

I really feel as though in the US people artificially inflate the prices to make them seem more valuable, causing people to pay more for them, and so on. Some games really are valuable, but most are not worth anywhere near market value over there.

When did you get the louvre game cuz I went like a month ago and it was gone

@@SquidStuff Got mine January of 2020, have a bad feeling they won't make anymore since the 3DS is slowly discontinuing unfortunately :(

It's such a great attitude for them all to have, they could pretend Jon was never there. But leaning into it and promoting GVG is awesome

So true, as a Belgian, I resorted to just hunt for UK copies. But whenever I find something cool, it’s always some french (irl) or Italian (online) copy

I agree, every country has it's own market. Some prices can vary between regions and game tastes are slightly different (so some games can be more or less obscure). Many of the prices seen in the video are better than what you would pay in a shop here in Belgium.

In Luxembourg it‘s the worst actually. If you find games with only one language, it differs from every shop. Some have them in German, some in French and some in English. Sometimes dutch is also packed in either the german or french Versions. I mean, I don‘t care about them games not being Luxembourgish, I don‘t like that language anyway.

@@ct4547 I think we are both 'crossroad countries' so it is not really that surprising. :) At least most games are multi language these days. It doesn't really affect gameplay. And sometimes I am happy to buy a german, Italian or French version just because it is a few euros cheaper. In a way it is also charming that I have game boxes in all the possible languages.

@@ct4547 As a kid I lived nea Luxemburg and I experienced this exact same thing with Pokémon cards. still have a few german ones