Old games - What do you do?

[fiatpower]

Going through an in-depth clean of the house before our first child arrives in a few week and I found 3 boxes full of Xbox, ps2, ps3 and Xbox 360 games. Is it worth selling them? Seems very wasteful to just throw away.

I was thinking of getting some multi disc wallets to keep the discs and throw away the space taking covers. I can still play them all (and will be playing gta IV later!) so part of me says to keep in the CD wallets

[Narcisus]

First thing to do is have a look at them on eBay to make sure you dont have anything rare ...

[DKS]

CEX are very helpful. Depends how much you value your time. I traded in a few XBOX games for PS4 as my console has died and walked out with a few games and £23 on a voucher.

[C5_Steve]

As above if you're committed to getting rid then eBay would be the best place to start. CEX are going to give you pennies for most of them I'd say so unless you have a shed load and perhaps want to swap for something in there as the post above suggests probably not worth it.

I've ended up keeping all my old consoles and games, not huge collections and I don't think much of it is worth anything but just for nostalgia's sake. Although most of the older Nintendo stuff is now on the Switch through their online emulator which is significantly easier than digging out the NES and then spending 20 mins trying to get the cartridges to read

[fiatpower]

C5_Steve said:

I've ended up keeping all my old consoles and games, not huge collections and I don't think much of it is worth anything but just for nostalgia's sake.

I've come to this decision. I've stuck all the discs in a 400 disc wallet and thrown the cases away/put them in a stack to take the tip to make space. Figure I may as well keep them, some great games and memories in there!

Edited by fiatpower on Monday 8th January 13:05

[BritishBlitz87]

fiatpower said:

Going through an in-depth clean of the house before our first child arrives in a few week and I found 3 boxes full of Xbox, ps2, ps3 and Xbox 360 games. Is it worth selling them? Seems very wasteful to just throw away.

I was thinking of getting some multi disc wallets to keep the discs and throw away the space taking covers. I can still play them all (and will be playing gta IV later!) so part of me says to keep in the CD wallets

Best way to get rid of them right now is take them to CeX, Best way yo get rid of them sharpish is to look them up, stick any valuable ones on ebay and take the rest to cex.

The PS2/Xbox stuff should be worth a few quid, some games have shot up in the last couple of years. A couple of my games that I paid a couple of quid for 5-10 years ago are now selling for £20+ and even common games like Call of Duty and GTAare worth a few quid to the right person.

Ps3/xbox 360 games are still at the bottom of the depreciation curve mostly, 50p - £5 retail for the most common games (GTA 4 is selling for around a fiver for example) stick them back in the loft or play them but they are creeping slowly back up and will eventually be as expensive as ps2/ps1 games. As always, worth checking though as there are some rarities that are worth good money.
Please don't throw away the cases, if they aren't worthless now then they will be with no box and manual. (I collect them so I am biased )

[Steve Campbell]

I had an old PS3 with games so I gave them to my local youth club (at least the age appropriate ones ..... nothing 18).