The problem is they are making NEW sneakers. If you want a certain game and you don't want a repro then the supply isn't getting any larger. It's worse if the game is disc based as disc rot is very real, we could actually see the supply plummet over the next decade. Same goes for consoles, where leaky capacitors will be causing boards to fail.

I'd love to see a price drop, I still rant about how cheap GameCubes used to be, but there are many reasons to be pessimistic.

I think the market has already cooled for older consoles.

Not in my experience. Anything Nintendo is expensive as hell, including a run down NES for too much.

Big box pc games are often more expensive than what they were new. No matter the condition. And this "rating" system that pops op here and there is just absurd. I don't think it'll ever go back to what it was: Enthusiasts collecting and sharing what they grew up on.