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  GiochiHow to Tell a Genuinely Rare Retro Game From a Merely Expensive One"Rare" is the most abused word in a game listing. Here's how to tell genuine scarcity from a common game wearing an expensive word — before you pay the premium.
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  xboxWhat the Xbox One Actually Leaves Behind for CollectorsPick up a Day One 2013 controller and you're holding the receipt for one of the strangest console launches ever attempted. Chrome D-pad, DAY ONE 2013 stamped across the face, and in the box it shipped in, a one-time code for a commemorative achievement. Microsoft built a collector's item out of a console it would spend the next several years walking back — and that, oddly, is exactly what makes the Xbox One interesting to collect. A launch edition built around a vision Microsoft abandoned The
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  playstationWhy PS3 Collectors Check the Model Number FirstFlip a fat PS3 over and read the sticker before you even glance at the disc tray. Those five characters — CECHA, CECHB, CECHC — decide what your library even is, because the PS3 is the rare console where the hardware revision matters more than most of the games it plays. Why collectors read stickers, not spec sheets The Japanese and North American launch units — the 60GB CECHA and 20GB CECHB from November 2006 — carry actual PlayStation 2 silicon on the board: the Emotion Engine CPU and Graph