Retro gaming plateau?

[Gunnerholic]

Alright chaps,

With 16 bit systems and games as popular as ever what with the influence of YouTube and other social media do you think the demand for Amiga, Mega Drive & Snes etc will plateau? I've read one or two articles state that the popularity of the systems is just a nostalgia filled fad that will eventually drop off like Atari collecting did in the mid to late 2000s.
I don't want to be too curmudgeonly but does anyone else think think that demand has been inflated by people who have no connection to those systems or games buying them up when they probably weren't even born or were to young personally that baffles me as what guides my purchases is the great memories. I'm mid 30s and grew up through those heady days owning a c64c mega drive and an a500 plus. Never been interested in atari or spectrum or even further down the line Saturn because I never owned or so much as played on them.
Do these sort of thoughts bug anybody else or am I just growing grumpy on my own with regards to this?
Cheers.

 

[RED IMPACT]

Too much disposable income! Nostalgia is a ***** tho haha...!

 

[MyNameisPox]

I think there are a number of routes for Amiga in the immediate future...

The rise of new motherboards, such as the Alice one on this forum, causing a shortage on old chips.
Youtube getting bored of gaming nostalgia, NES and other systems, and start looking at computers as the new path forward.
Amigas EE/GameDesign/Music/Programing's ability could bring in more fans.
An amiga movie that causes mass purchasing (I'm betting this one ).
Amiga floats till we run out of money, lose interest, fall apart, or die. Like the stamp or coin collectors or yore!
We all die from the 2020 apocalypse. (not political :dry

I have started seeing 1USD bins, at conventions, for NES games again. Something that makes me think gaming systems are diving in popularity. I have not seen these since 2012 ish. That said, it is the hardware I care about, not really physical games and software... space is limited for me.

I do see N64 and Xbox going up in price as kids who used them grow older and get disposable income. It is hard for a generation to be completely immune to nostalgia (unless suffering).

Bleh,
-Pox

 

[Gunnerholic]

An amiga movie that causes mass purchasing

I'm kind of surprised that the Amiga story has never been dramatised but also glad, it'd kill the hobby for me I think.

The rise of new motherboards, such as the Alice one on this forum, causing a shortage on old chips.

Yes interesting times ahead, great to see still such an active interest in keeping Amiga production going albeit in small batches. But as you say replacing chips now will probably come at a premium. I don't know what the answer is to all that, replacing amigas will become very difficult one day in the near future. Will the community even care by then.

I have started seeing 1USD bins, at conventions, for NES games again. Something that makes me think gaming systems are diving in popularity.

I hope you are right, Mega drive games are still way to expensive over here in the UK compared to 6 or 7years ago even though the majority of people my age or older have children and a lack of space. So I'm guessing that the younger generation has replaced us in collecting 16bit games and systems.