The rarest PS Vita "game" (I think)

[kempstar]

I am the proud owner of what (I think) is the rarest, or at least one of the rarest PS Vita releases. 

 

It was given away as part of a promotion/competition in Germany. It doest even contain a cartridge, there is a download code inside, and the code itself expired years ago.

 

I dont think anybody knows how many there are, and I have seen them come up a handful of times on eBay over the years. 

 

I am considering selling it. Does anyone have any idea of what it might be worth? I had an offer of £500 a few years back, which I decided not to take in the end. Also, any ideas where a good place to try and sell it would be? Ideally not on eBay, if I can avoid it. 

[yakumo]

What is so special about it?

[kempstar]

The fact there are so few in existence, and back then, it was fairly unusual to have a download code like this in a proper Vita box and stuff. I think the game is meant to be quite good (its the PSP game actually) but I have no idea as I havent actually played it!

[yakumo]

2 hours ago, kempstar said:

The fact there are so few in existence, and back then, it was fairly unusual to have a download code like this in a proper Vita box and stuff. I think the game is meant to be quite good (its the PSP game actually) but I have no idea as I havent actually played it!

Yeah there doesn't seem to be any information about it, do you regret not taking the offer or do you think it's worth more now?

[kempstar]

I would have thought its worth a lot more now. No regrets. Always!

 

[amc]

No cartridge and the game code has expired. So a box then. Not doubting it may probably be rare and worth a good amount but you'd have to be a bit daft to buy what is essentially packaging.

 

Collectors lol.

[Rex Grossman]

Yeah, it’s not a game. It is just a box with a worthless piece of paper in it.

 

Anyone who would pay you good money for this is a colossal idiot and I hope you fleece them. They will deserve it.

[SMD]

See if this idiot still wants to be ripped off https://old.reddit.com/r/vita/comments/89vkd0/looking_for_resistance_retribution_for_vita/

[Vimster]

There's got to be some nutter who reeeeeeally needs that box on his shelf and he's prepared to pay top dollar for it, can't bear the idea someone else has it and he doesn't. That's the collector mentality. 

[kempstar]

7 hours ago, Vimster said:

There's got to be some nutter who reeeeeeally needs that box on his shelf and he's prepared to pay top dollar for it, can't bear the idea someone else has it and he doesn't. That's the collector mentality. 

Thats why I bought it 😔

[Ninja Doctor]

You should get it WATA graded just for the lols. 

[megamixer]

Too bad Retro Collect isn't a thing anymore as that was a place with a lot of knowlegable full-set collector types.

 

Personally never been into the whole complete set thing but I've always been impressed when people manage to do it for a system and have all the obscure variants and weird stuff like this Resistance game. I seem to remember some full-set PS2 collectors on RC that had to buy a Singstar game in every available Euro language as the covers and song lists were different. Same for that football game that had all the different covers for different Premier League teams with certain team variants being much rarer.

[Afternoon Delight]

It's not even a good game, at least on the PSP it wasn't. That's coming from a big fan of the PS3 version.  

Not that it would make a jot of difference to a collector anyway. 

[Paulando]

Surely a useless bit of paper inside a sealed box is no different to a physical cart or disk being left untouched inside a sealed box.

[Wonderm]

I tried to do the whole PAL SNES & Dreamcast in a different life, i do sympathise with whoever ends up with this code in a box. If i was collecting full set pal vita i would definitely need this 

 

£500 seems like an incredible price though. What was the last public sale? 

[kempstar]

On 05/11/2022 at 18:34, Wonderm said:

I tried to do the whole PAL SNES & Dreamcast in a different life, i do sympathise with whoever ends up with this code in a box. If i was collecting full set pal vita i would definitely need this 

 

£500 seems like an incredible price though. What was the last public sale? 

 

I dont remember seeing a public sale (on eBay at least) for a long time.

[kempstar]

In case anyone is interested in the progress, this hasnt sold and I have had to drop the price quite a few times. Ive had plenty of offers above £300 though.

 

Perhaps more interesting is that one of my games, the asia english version of Asterisk War sold for £700! Which I completely was not expecting.

Here is an interesting article listing what they think are (or were, at that point in time) the rarest vita titles, with AW at number 1-

 

https://blog.pricecharting.com/2020/07/10-rarest-and-most-valuable-playstation.html?m=1

[kempstar]

And sold.... For £300. A bit disappointed with that, especially as I had offers of £375 and £325 a couple of weeks ago. I hope the useless code in a box goes to a good home 😀

[Rex Grossman]

13 hours ago, kempstar said:

And sold.... For £300. A bit disappointed with that, especially as I had offers of £375 and £325 a couple of weeks ago. I hope the useless code in a box goes to a good home 😀

 

[kempstar]

🤣

 

Im pretty sure I paid 150 Euros originally, probably less than £100 at the time, so cant complain.

[Sumire]

Damn that is a good sale. I am amazed any game on the system would command that sort of money really. I have a pretty big collection, but none of the desirable ones in that link. 

[strider]

Crazy to see how expensive Vita games are getting. I've got a new-complete set of Limited Run Vita games which are still sealed (missing about 16 games I think) and I did have Rose In The Twilight but sold it for a couple of hundred quid a few months back (I used the case to get Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine on N64).

 

[Superfamifreak]

On 14/12/2022 at 11:32, kempstar said:

Perhaps more interesting is that one of my games, the asia english version of Asterisk War sold for £700! Which I completely was not expecting.

Here is an interesting article listing what they think are (or were, at that point in time) the rarest vita titles, with AW at number 1-

 

https://blog.pricecharting.com/2020/07/10-rarest-and-most-valuable-playstation.html?m=1

 

I can't believe the hype that game gets.

 

1. It's in no way 'rare', it's uncommon at best and certainly more common than Ar NoSurge, History: Legends of War & Rose in the Twilight. I could definitely buy a copy today if I was so inclined.

2. It's absolutely f*****g PISS POOR.

3. It usually comes up on various facebook Vita groups where a lot of members are based in the Phillipines or Malaysia.

3. Did I mention how bad it is?

 

[kempstar]

History Legends of War isnt rare at all, you can buy it at CEX.