I swear I hate Ebay sometimes.. While it' s not exclusive to just them it' s always ridiculous the prices some of the sellers charge for stuff... I think one of If not the most ridiculous price I ever saw for a game was $1,300 for Darius - a friggin PCEngine HuCard. Never saw anything like it before in my life, lots of people bidding and willing to pay that much for what was a mediocre arcade shooter.
Same thing happened with the Dreamcast, folks were paying upwards of $1100 just to own a launch unit and the only worthwhile launch game was Virtua Fighter 3: Team Battle, a game that could have been played at the arcades while waiting for the shortage to end and price of the console to finally stabilize.

I laughed my a$$ off the following week when the $1000 price that import shops and other places were charging for the Dreamcast dropped to $600. Just waiting one week could have saved those ' desperate' early adopters $400.. I myself am an early adopter BUT I do have my limits and even if I were super rich I sure as hell wouldn' t pay $700 and up for a console when I could pay closer to the MSRP a few weeks down the line. When that sucker finally hit the price range I was waiting for ($380) that' s when I finally made the jump and purchased one.

I remember the PS2 went through something similar as the Dreamcast. While the prices I saw for the PS2 weren' t as bad as the Dreamcast, still they were quite ridiculous. Luckily I ordered mine from the Sony site without having to pay extra premiums.

Anyways out of curiousity I headed over to Ebay to check and see if there was any PSP related activity going on there and yep, supply-demand price gouging is in FULL effect there! Some are asking $700, while one boob is asking for $1000, and sadly I know he' ll get it. The guy' s positioned in Japan so you know he bought them at regular price and is ' sticking it' hard to anyone desperate enough to part with that kind of cash in hopes of owning one.

I can' t wait till Sony releases enough to satisfy the initial demand just so the ' stock value' of those Ebay clowns plummets into the abyss.

Too bad game companies don' t flood the market with remakes or rereleases of Radiant Silvergun and Panzer Dragoon Saga, hehe..

C' mon NCS, give us some good news regarding the PSP tomorrow! lol..