For several years we have had classified series and rated trading cards, but recently a new form of rating has rooted in the collector's item – graduated video games.
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What kind of madman would sell their graded Pokemon cards to Gamestop?
The one invested in the graded Pokemon card hobby knows better than doing business with Gamestop.
It is exactly what the name suggests: a video game, usually sealed in shrink-wrap, but not always, rated by a collector company with the hope of selling it in the future for double, triple or quadruple what it is worth right now. We have already seen Nintendo Switch 2 owners start to rate some of Switch 2's launch games, especially those on game key cards, although the download codes associated with them will expire in short order.
That said, most Nintendo fans are not convinced that rating should even be one thing.
Will a game like Super Mario Wonder even appreciate in value so much?
As originally shared on Switch Reddit, a user shared his disgust to see the 2023's Super Mario Bros. Wonder locked in a case with a graded stamp.
“I don't understand the point of rating a modern game that is still sold and will probably be available digitally for a very long time,” wrote the best comment. That point was repeated by another user who wrote “Grading = fraud. Hat to see it.”
For what it is worth, the game got a 9.9 from CGC, although it is important to note that the grade is related to the game's actual plastic wrap and has nothing to do with the status as a cartridge, artwork or stakes. Which means the game can be dead, and no one would know.
“Ridiculous stuff. You can see that it says it is a Y-fold sealing. For me, this is cross-border,” wrote another user who is critical to the graded game phenomenon. “It's a video game for playing, not unlock in a plastic case because you think it's worth something,” wrote another.
The reality is that the copy of Wonder is not the only graded Switch game that floats around. A brief search of “Graded Switch Game” on Ebay pulled up over 1,000 lists, everything from Breath of the Wild to Final Fantasy X.
In addition, according to a user, there is a certain profit, but nowhere close to as much as one would expect. They stated that a 9.8 graded breath of the wild was sold for between $ 150-200. The game was sold for $ 60 at launch, and grading services cost about $ 40, which means they earned $ 50 for all this work. If we could only blink forward 20 years to see what this copy of Wonder will sell for.
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