Collection of 6,850 video games and 330 consoles up for sale on Ebay for $550K

This makes me wonder: How will today's games be preserved in a collection like this?<p>I'm sure the DRM servers for games like Assassin's Creed won't be maintained for more than another decade, if that. Then, you have all kinds of PC games with limited authorizations. Most people also have numerous digital games tied to their Steam / Origin / Amazon accounts. If any of those disappear, you could lose a big chunk of your collection. There's no way to pass those games on to anyone else even if the services are still around.<p>It seems piracy is the only hope of preserving today's games for future generations.

The speculation on reddit is that the collection isn't worth close to $50k, let alone $550k, because the real gold in the collection has long since been sold off and what remains is just a collection of old games and consoles, games and consoles that aren't rare or hard to acquire elsewhere.

What's up with having so many of one console? Eg, all these PS2s? <a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/dsc03114h.jpg/" rel="nofollow">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/dsc03114h.jpg/</a>

The inner child inside of me is screaming, "Bank loan, bank loan, bank loan you're an adult now the bank will gladly lend you money to relive your childhood!", but the inner and in debt mid twenty year old I really am is saying, "Keep dreaming" — a museum should buy these, $550K is probably a bargain considering the total collection could be close to a million maybe even more in a few short years.

Anyone else with their mouth agape as they scroll down the listing looking at those images? 8-0

When I checked both the versions of his full list:<p>Mega: running<p>Dropbox: Error (509) This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!<p><a href="http://i46.tinypic.com/w9jtia.png" rel="nofollow">http://i46.tinypic.com/w9jtia.png</a>

My question is: why is he selling? lf he is wealthy enough to have accumulated all these games and consoles in the first place and not care about probably making twice as much by selling piece-by-piece, I don't think it's for the money. Maybe his SO said it's either me or the video games. The fact that he spent literally months of eight hour days lovingly cataloging and photographing everything seems to show that the flame still burns that led him to collect them in the first place.

Is it all still in the original, unopened packaging? A lot of collectors like it like that.<p>Personally I think it's way overpriced. The seller is factoring their own sentimentality into the price, something unlikely to be shared by others. At $50 a game and $200 a console, it's still only $408K.<p>But then, maybe there's a sentimental billionaire who wants it...

Feel sorry for this dude. A lifetime collecting, imagine all the time organizing and buying these things, and the cost. Unless this goes for a lot over the initial asking price, he's sort of getting a raw deal.<p>Sad to see a life wasted like that. But I guess he isn't the only person whose lives video games have ruined (WoW).

I couldn't see the Steel Battalion controller for the original Xbox.

A lot of history here. Could be worth more than a mere half a million.