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A copy of 'Super Mario 64' sold for over $1.5 million, the most ever paid for a video game:
A copy of "Super Mario 64" has sold for more than $1.5 million, smashing the record for the most expensive sale ever of a video game at auction.
The sealed copy of the classic Nintendo 64 video game fetched $1.56 million including fees on Sunday.
Dallas-based auction house Heritage said it was the first time a game had gone for more than $1 million. The sale topped a record set just two days ago, when another Nintendo game, "The Legend of Zelda," was sold for $870,000, the auctioneers said.
[...] "After the record-breaking sale of the first game in the Zelda series on Friday, the possibility of surpassing $1 million on a single video game seemed like a goal that would need to wait for another auction," Heritage Auctions video games specialist Valarie McLeckie said in a statement.
"We were shocked to see that it turned out to be in the same one! We are proud to have been a part of this historic event," she added.
Previously:
"Legend of Zelda" Auction Sets Bar for the Most Expensive Video Game at $870,000
Unopened Super Mario Bros. Game from 1986 Sells for $660,000
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 12 2021, @10:21PM
Or like a rational person. Just because you can mod me troll and therefore effectively make me invisible to others doesn't mean I don't have a point.
Actually, it is kinda nuts unless they also have replacement income to keep up what they're throwing away. You ever look at what happens to lottery winners who suddenly get $100 million or whatever? Lots of those stories don't end well. If you spend $2 million on various things with a billion dollars, you get 500 things. Then you're done. Game over. Now try to keep all your expensive toys unless you've planned for it.
Yes, I'm not a moron.
You think that's what I'm doing? I have a decent amount of money in the bank too. I don't waste my time skimping and saving all the time. Go back and read my post. I say IF you only have $1000 (the scenario YOU presented), it's irrational to spend money, even a dollar, without thinking a bit about it. If you have $10,000 in the bank, it gets easier. If you have $100,000 in the bank, maybe it's not worth your time to spend an hour searching flights to save an extra $20. Maybe your time is worth more than that. AND, I went on to say that some people like to have joy in their lives, so spending a bit more on an occasional luxury item that makes them happy makes sense.
I was addressing your specific scenario of a guy with $1000 net worth.
Or, you know, they could act like reasonable people and actually use that money for something useful, something that benefits others or society as a whole, like charitable endeavors. To me, it's not only "nuts" to spend millions on a video game, but borderline immoral. If I had a billion dollars, ~$10 million would go in my personal account, which would allow me to live off the interest for the rest of my days (and probably have a LOT to spare each year...). The other $990 million would gradually get distributed in ways to try to do some good in the world.
I have a friend who is a multimillionaire. More like an acquaintance these days, but I've spent a week at one of his five houses. I know what the lifestyle can be like. But the thing is, he owned a private jet for a while, then sold it. He doesn't travel as much these days, and if he wants to, he could charter a flight for a fraction of just owning (let alone using) the jet. He owned a max of five houses at one time, but got rid of three of them now. And while the remainder are on the larger side of "normal," they're not "mansions."
He collected "toys" for a while, after being a self-made guy. Then he figured out having all the toys isn't really worth it. He doesn't give a shit what other people think of him or whether they have some luxury BS. He sold his Tesla because he wanted a back-up camera and lane-changing things for his wife, and they didn't offer it at the time. Tesla, according to him, was apparently focused on people who want toys and stuff to drive fast, not practical options for an older couple. So he bitched and complained to them and then gave them their car back. He doesn't need "status symbols" to be important, though admittedly it took him a few years to figure that out, I think...
I'm not saying this is the only way to live, but he's not the only rich person who does this. There are billionaires with reasonable size houses and who don't waste $50,000 at the drop of a hat when it costs them three minutes to save $49,000.
You do realize my valediction in my previous post was not addressed to you but to the imagined guy spending lots of money on a video game, right? If I didn't make that clear, sorry. But I wasn't really being flippant to you, rather to a guy with a "gotta get the most toys" mentality.