One of many PS2’s Rarest Video games Plummets in Worth After New Discovery

Rule of Rose is now significantly cheaper to purchase on PS2.

One of many rarest video games within the PlayStation 2 library has seen its resale worth plummet for an surprising motive. Typically talking, lots of the costliest titles within the PS2 catalog occur to be within the survival-horror style. Video games like Haunting Floor, Silent Hill: Shattered Recollections, Obscure, and the obscenely dear Kuon all are likely to promote continuously on the secondhand marketplace for lots of of {dollars} (or extra) relying on the situation. Fortuitously, for these trying to get their fingers on the extremely uncommon Rule of Rose, it has now turn out to be a bit cheaper for one particular model of the sport. 

Noticed by @h0pearcana, the price of Rule of Rose has lately fallen by a considerable margin after plenty of unopened copies of the sport have been seemingly found. Beforehand, the PAL model of Rule of Rose in new situation would promote for as a lot as $1,400 in 2023 however fell to promote extra persistently for about $600 to $800 till as latest as final month. Within the wake of those new copies of the sport having been found, although, it is now promoting for under a bit greater than $300. That is clearly nonetheless a very excessive worth, but it surely pales compared to what was seen earlier than.

the worth of one of many ps2’s rarest video games simply halved as a result of a pair italian ebay sellers discovered a number of hundred sealed copies?? pic.twitter.com/8QtMXBhPLM

— Laura 💜 (@h0pearcana) September 8, 2024

The curious factor about this example with Rule of Rose is that every one the brand new copies of the sport which have hit the resale market are being shipped from Italy. That is significantly notable as writer 505 Video games is headquartered in Italy and was the corporate that printed Rule of Rose in Europe when it launched in 2006. In all chance, 505 Video games should’ve had some copies of the sport that it by no means had hit retailer cabinets that somebody then got here throughout this yr.

Sadly, this inflow of PAL copies of Rule of Rose hasn’t in flip lowered the worth of the North American model of the sport. Presently, the NA version of Rule of Rose (which was printed by Atlus) continues to promote for round $700 CIB. New copies are then persevering with to go for between $900 and $1000 with regularity. So in case you’re trying to solely gather your retro PS2 video games from North America, you may have fairly a little bit of saving to do in an effort to snag Rule of Rose.