Videogame Collector's Edition

I am planning on buying collector's editions of promising games as a sort of investment (keeping them sealed). My question is do all LE's and CE's increase in value if kept sealed? The editions I am talking about are ones that offer a physical item, for example, Assassin's Creed 2: Black Edition which has an Ezio figurine. These now go for around $400 (they were originally priced about $100).

What do you think? Do all LEs increase in price?

Depends on the gamss

Are you sure that's how much it's going for and not how much people are TRYING to sell them for?

I'd say it's only the niche games that will be worth anything.

man the states really put up the ac2 black edition for 400?

you can find it in eu for 70 euro unboxed.

It depends on a few things like the game and the availability of the Collectors edition and the extra you get in the CE.

But in the end its all about supply&Demand.

@Jacanuk: there's a survival edition for fallout 3 which is going for 350 usd . How do you find out how many copies of a CE were produced? I want to get the the AC syndicate Big Ben edition, it seems like something that might grow in value.

For starters you gotta have an idea of how many collector´s/special editions are going to be available, most of them are produced in large numbers so as an "investment" they don´t provide enough revenue to make the investment worth it for keeping it sealed. One of the few cases for example are the TLoU editions specially the Post Pandemic Edition or the Batman Arkhman Knight Batmobile edition ( high collectors value are those really hard to get, specially the GameStop editions ) or The Halo MCC collector´s edition, those are selling for insane prices right now, the rest not really worth a lot.

In general you have collect games for the pure joy of collecting. 95% lose value, opened or unopened. It's like collecting baseball cards, when the market is flooded, they are just another piece of cardboard. raugutcon has the right of it.

@raugutcon: What do you reckon about the Assassins Creed Syndicate Big Ben Edition?

http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubiemea/en_AU/pd/ThemeID.8605700/productID.317807000/Assassins-Creed-Syndicate-Big-Ben-Collectors-Case

When they claim there are only "Limited Quantities", I am unsure if that is BS. Although this does seem like a rare version of the game as it is only available from uPlay.

@bearnewman: I do enjoy playing games. When I was younger, I used to buy some of these collector's editions and wasted a lot of money. I opened them and damaged everything inside. But after reading some articles, I realised that if these were kept sealed they must have increased in value. Some of them anyway.

Ya, Fallout 3 is a great game and not many got the CE back in the day.

As to how many was made, you can usually figure it out by calling/emailing the developer or look it up on google. But usually its not a lot.

As to AC Big Ben Ed. hmm thats a hard one, Ubisoft messed up with unity and their goodwill is pretty much gone. But if you can afford it then go for it.

@Jacanuk: Since Unity was garbage, I am hoping not a lot of people get the Big Ben Edition. But at the same time, I hope Syndicate turns out to be a great game so that demand for this would rise eventually. It's kind of like dealing with shares, but tougher. Think I might go for it, if it effs up I can give it to my brother as its his favourite series.