The release of Metal Gear Solid 4 may not have done much for PlayStation 3 console sales, but has for some reason sent the value of older Metal Gear Solids sky-rocketing.
Going by the current prices on Amazon Marketplace and eBay, the GameCube-exclusive Twin Snakes has been exchanging hands for in excess of £50, the PSone original for over £25 and the Substance version of Metal Gear Solid 2 for upwards of £45. eBay auctions for Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence have also been ending for around £60, while Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel on PSP has been selling for £30. Even Metal Gear Solid 2 - which can be found for £1.99 in Gamestation - has jumped up to £8 on Amazon Marketplace.
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I’ve never heard the expression ‘exchanging hands’ before Matt, except for Google telling me about a band called Knives Exchanging Hands.
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I’ve heard it plenty before. Maybe it’s a southern thing… unless Matt’s not southern, in which case it’s more likely to be a mystery.
Anyway, I’m wishing my PS1 games weren’t all copies right now.
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Yes Matt’s from the south coast. He does say a lot of rubbish :D
The first 12 pages on Google for ‘exchanging hands’ are purely referencing a band called Knives Exchanging Hands, so it’s definitely not in common written usage - the normal term is changing hands.
But… why do you think having bought a PSone game (rather than a copy) in 1998 for £40 and then selling it in 2008 for £25 would be a good investment?! You’d need to sell it for at least £65 just to break even taking inflation into account!
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no my mate dan he cud get them rly cheap .)
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Because until recently MGS on PSone could be picked up dirt cheap. And maybe I did just mean ‘changing hands’
Who knows!
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