Just when you thought that everything was written, that no one else could pay more for a video game, when you think that all the money that could be spent on a video game cartridge had already vanished, this mysterious buyer appears and drops nothing less than 2 million dollars per piece. an intact cartridge of NES Super Mario Bros.. We are crazy?
the endless auction
The new record comes directly from the Rally auction application, an application only available on iPhone and Android that seeks to offer the frenzy and nerves of big auctions in a mobile tool where you can bid wherever you are. Rally's feat is very important, since it has managed to outperform other large auctions from renowned bookmakers such as Heritage Auctions, a house that until now had been in charge of pricing the big titles that have been auctioned in recent years.
We only have to go back a month to remember the million and a half they paid for a copy of Super Mario 64, an immaculate version of the cartridge that Heritage Auctions certified last July.
Punks, X-Men, Declarations, and some news…
🏆A NEW WORLD RECORD on Rally🏆
…w/ the $2,000,000 sale of our 1985 Super Mario Bros., marking the HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for a video game of any title.
Read more in today's New York Times (cc: @nytimes): https://t.co/mJzEcVMXuQ pic.twitter.com/segsfw6Jw9
—Rally (@OnRallyRd) August 6
2 million for a Mario
Once again, the cartridge that has been sold had extremely special conditions. With a score of 9.8 in the Wata certification, it was a completely sealed unit that Rally had bought in April 2020, a round investment that has ended in the best possible way.
A game with many owners
Rally's play explains very well how great the serve is. Rally bought in April 2020 this copy of Super Mario Bros. for $120.000. This investment serves to place the game on its platform, and that is where users can buy "shares" of this product to have some authority over it. Thus, when someone makes an important offer on the product, the "owners" decide whether to accept it or not. And that's what happened when the $2 million proposal came along. At the end of 2020 They rejected a purchase intent of $300.000, and now, 75% of the shareholders did not hesitate to accept the offer.
The buyer has obviously remained completely anonymous, and it seems that he is making large purchases in the world of video games, so we may see some future purchases of this type, if he has not already made one or the other before. . Is this the enigmatic buyer of Super Mario 64 for 1,5 million dollars?
How is the classification
Taking into account the number of games that have been selling in recent months at astronomical prices, the highest auctions leaderboard is as follows:
- June 11, 2020: Super Mario Bros. by U.S. dollar 114.000
- November 23, 2020: Super Mario Bros 3 by U.S. dollar 156.000
- April 2, 2021: Super Mario Bros. by U.S. dollar 660.000
- July 9, 2021: The Legend of Zelda by U.S. dollar 870.000
- July 11, 2021: Super Mario 64 by U.S. dollar 1.560.000
- August 5, 2021: Super Mario Bros. by U.S. dollar 2.000.000