Leonardo Da Vinci did not produced 40 million copies of Monalisa and sold it for kids worldwide.
Edit: Also this version of Super Mario Bros is a localized one, it was changed a lot it terms of box artwork from the vision of its original creators. So keeping on Da Vinci exampe, it is the same of charging millions for a Monalisa copy that features an American girl instead of la Gioconda.
Maybe not but you can happily buy as many prints that you will need a microscope to tell the difference for as you will like. Does that mean the original is worthless?
I haven't heard of Rally, and that sounds pretty cool, and I guess the people who joined in to buy the game for that $140,000 made a healthy profit.
Of course, the idea of games being sold for this much is crazy, I'm just interested in the idea of Rally itself.
See "real estate investment trusts" as that is probably one of the closer things in commonly seen circles. Same idea as people that might not necessarily want to put in full whack (if houses cost hundreds of thousands but most make/have available to invest a tenth of that a year...), or spread their risk (owning 1 house, might burn down or have tenants stop paying rent, owning the same value in 20 houses across several cities, not all going to burn down and even if the town factory closes in one place the others are probably still going to be doing something).
Smart choice. This will be highly desirable collectors item in museums in the future worth tons of money. People now preserving art is a huge step up compared to the past. Imagine if we preserved works of art in this way from leonardo or da vinci? They would be even worth more now and preserve history alot better.
Will museums care about quality to this degree? If I am at a games exhibit then sure have a box and cart/disc in a display case with a controller coming out of a wall to maybe play it (or certain segments of it). If I am going to need a science lab to tell the quality from a run of the mill good one then I am not sure of the need, and frankly battered as found in an attic would be just fine for most I imagine, wall of screens and print outs/mock ups/recreations probably going to be even better if they don't have to waste space and can fit more games in to look at.
Equally "preserving now" is a fun one. The comics bubble a few decades back now is a good example of this where it was found everybody and their donkey was sleeving and whatnot their comics so what might have been scarce actually was rather less.
Also better methods get made in the future; will have to look up the full details but general idea. Scandinavia, maybe not quite viking days but nearer than not, big battle on a bog, losers leave the bodies to sink, gets rediscovered in the mid 20th century and everybody is happy the ham fisted Victorians did not find it and do what they did to Egypt during that digging up ancient Egypt phase they went through, today though far fancier tools are available and doubtless in 30 years there will be fancier stuff still.
On preserving art then there is some debate as to the permanence of things in art but I will leave that one. That said I do find it amusing that a lot of people think restored art looks bad as they are so used to dirty and faded artwork, that or ancient greek statues were seldom nice white marble but actually painted (you can still find trace of it in the crevices) so the image most have of nice white marble is very wrong and instead should be quite gaudy.
On art restoration though then I will say this following channel is utterly captivating and I generally don't care about art.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ
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Seems weird to spend 2 million on this he could have put that money into some shares and watch it multiply.
What if this multiplies faster? If you bought in an index fund for the S&P500 (main US shares market) in April 2020 when this cart was last sold (just missed out on some good stuff so let's assume you went for the low in March of 2721.57) it would be 4429.10 today. A nice bump actually, even if inflation probably ate a chunk of it and the tax man likely some more when you sell it, though rather unprecedented historically (average stock market growth is generally assumed to be about 7% per year
https://tokenist.com/investing/average-stock-market-return/ ).
https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data for the data if you want to play with other years and other markets, do bear in mind the numbers there are not necessarily inflation adjusted.
We could look at highest performing shares (all eggs in one basket, might have to ignore the gamestop bit) or maybe do futures contracts (bit risky but OK) to do a few times that.
$140000 in April 2020 to 2 million today is just over 14 times growth which is far better still. Now I doubt the growth will carry on like that, and risk and ability to sell makes it not my first choice but at the same time hard to argue with the numbers like that.
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