
On each of the simple line graphs, I’ve highlighted the dates where each of the re-releases were rumored, officially announced, and then actually released on their respective platforms. Three years later, I decided to chart out the results of the tracking and see how affordable downloads of the popular games would affect the values of the original physical releases.īelow you will see the trends of three popular games that were re-released on Xbox Live Arcade and/or Playstation Network.


So at the end of 2006, I started tracking a handful of games that I thought would be candidates for digital re-releases. When the digital distribution model started taking off on services like Xbox Live Arcade and PSN, I had a feeling that we would start seeing affordable downloads of cult-classic games that have previously been expensive collectors pieces.

How Digital Downloads Affect Values of Collectable Games
