What Gamecube Price Trends Can Tell Us About the Gaming Market [Retronomics]

The Nintendo Gamecube is Nintendo's first disc based system meant to compete with the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox. While the system was powerful, the tiny discs limited third party support and overall sales of the systems weren't up to par.
Fast forward to 2022 and video game prices are sky high and Gamecube being one of the systems that increased the most in the past 2 years.
Gamecube is still pretty popular despite the high prices. But that means we can look at the trends of the Gamecube to get an idea of how the game market will trend as a whole.

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00:00 Intro
00:26 Welcome to Retronomics
01:29 Gamecube Stats
02:17 Cubivore
03:03 Rally Championship
03:42 Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
04:19 Ikaruga
04:49 Mario Kart Double Dash!!
05:19 Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness
05:44 Disney Sports Basketball
06:10 Beach Spikers
06:41 Geist
07:07 Second Sight
07:34 Ultimate Muscle
08:04 Paper Mario Thousand Year Door
08:39 F-Zero GX
09:05 Super Mario Sunshine
09:43 Eternal Darkness
10:21 Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
11:20 Skies of Arcadia Legends
11:33 Super Smash Bros. Melee
12:01 Chibi Robo!
12:35 Luigi's Mansion
13:09 Zelda Twilight Princess
13:46 Def Jam Fight for NY
14:23 Alien Hominid
14:53 Gauntlet Dark Legacy
15:10 Go! Go! Hypergrind
15:36 Metal Arms Glitch in the System
15:57 Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
16:22 Warioware Mega Party Games
16:40 Super Mario Strikers
17:11 Kao the Kangaroo 2
17:46 Overview and thoughts
18:53 Will Gamecube ever be affordable?
19:17 Like and Subscribe!

[NESChest]

I always appreciate these retronomics videos. I collected GC games in the early days when no one wanted them back in 2012-2016 and game prices had not really differentiated yet.

[KitDoctor]

I appreciate this niche of videos. Always cool to check in and see what prices are doing for retro video games

[AsherTheModder]

If prices are like this then I'll use my hacked GameCube to pirate every single game til the bubble hopefully bursts

[kranibal]

Always a great day when you post a video! Thank you!

[Gobbedlygook]

Ikaruga on the switch and PS4 are getting reprints by Nicalis (says coming soon), not sure if that would affect the GameCube version price though.

[Gaming-Enthusiast]

I’ve been looks at GameCube, though I dove into Wii U few months back

[theamazingspiderman]

I wasnt even aware there was another one of these nice, also how have you been?

[mattjcwig]

What this video teaches me is to not feel bad if i pirate the expensive games in the GCN library 🤣

[NeighborhoodOppa]

As people make their USA collections, how do you feel about the prices on the Asian Japan games as people want to expand their collections?

[rayman]

I still have that Paper Mario game, only played once since new, game in the case with manual, like 99.9% new

[theamazingspiderman]

Also the MGS Twin Snakes flaking is just the DISC ART, which doesnt effect how it plays its only just cosmetic

[athag]

Found a mint condition complete Skies of Arcadia for Gamecube for under $US100.

[TheRoidemortetfleur]

Maybe we should hope the government does some more reckless spending. Sadly I don't think we will have to hold our breath for long.

[chilly]

Why would you want to spend big bucks on these games?
I still have my collection from back then and I'd never sell them but, I'd also never buy them at stupid prices.

[josephmoser]

Hey man. I have been holding on to all of my stuff. I have most of the popular stuff. Some have copies. I even have 4 oem wireless controllers with receivers.

I could use the money. And I’m thinking of getting rid of it. Wondering if that’s a bad idea and I should hold on to it.

[ryanwilliams]

The Gamecube has settled But its only up from here.
Its starting to get really old.
Does anyone know what A:
Gamecube(black)
Wavebird (Silver)
2 Generic (controllers)
CIB complete:(minus the white papers)
Metal gear
Paper Mario
RE2
RE3
Code veronica
Zelda collector edition
Wind Waker
Twilight princess.
GOES FOR? AS A LOT!

[thelastdragon]

Thumbnail make it seems like you’re getting married and about to raise a family. 😅

[Fox_Mccloud]

Mario sunshine is the best Mario game!

[Chris-Courage]

Prices of GameCube games tell us that there are a lot of people who don't want to just load up a hard drive and play these games on the wii or know that they can. Hah!

[ColdComrade]

I’m just gonna emulate all those in 4K on my pc for free