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  MarkkinanäkymätWhy FPGA Consoles Are Quietly Eating the Retro MarketAsk anyone who tried to buy an original Super Nintendo last year and they'll tell you the same thing: a decent boxed console isn't the casual pickup it was five years ago. Loose consoles still turn up cheap, but clean examples with the right cables and a working RGB-capable board have crept steadily upward. And here's the thing collectors are only now admitting out loud — a growing chunk of players have stopped chasing the original hardware altogether. The reason is sitting on a lot of shelves
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  nintendoCollecting the Nintendo 3DS After the eShop Went DarkWhen Nintendo ended new purchases on the 3DS eShop in March 2023, it didn't just retire a storefront — it turned every cartridge into the only remaining door into the library. Pushmo, Intelligent Systems' brilliant block-pulling puzzler, was digital-only. So was Game Freak's oddball golf-poker hybrid Pocket Card Jockey. Neither ever got a cartridge, so on 3DS there's simply nothing left to buy. Why the closure made cartridges the whole story Even physical releases lost something. Fire Emblem:
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  nintendoThe Wii is everywhere, so what's actually rare?Somewhere in a drawer near you, a white Wii is resting under a tangle of cables, its sensor bar wrapped around a remote with a slightly chewed silicone jacket. Nintendo shipped over 100 million of these things, and it sometimes feels like half of them were donated, boot-saled or handed to a nephew before 2013 was out. That glut is exactly what makes the Wii interesting to collect: the hardware is nearly free, so all the collector attention concentrates in the stuff that isn't. Flip it over fir