The pristine copy of Skyrim retails for $ 600, despite all the doors

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most popular video games ever released and has been ported to more platforms than I have time to list. However, someone still decided to spend $ 600 on a sealed copy of Skyrim for Xbox 360 at a recent online auction.

As noted by Axios and some reporters over there (good luck man!), An unopened copy of Skyrim sold for $ 600 on July 11th. It was part of the same batch of items that included the outrageously expensive Super Mario 64, which also sold on the same day for $ 1.5 million, though some viewers are raising their eyebrows at what’s really going on.

It still breaks my brain to see a super easy to find game like Skyrim being sealed in one of those plastic boxes and sold on a website for so much money. It just seems like yesterday that I was picking up this game at my local GameStop and now it’s selling for over half a big. I’m usually ready to blame the rich, but in this case the price is low enough that it’s very likely that a diehard Elder Scrolls fan bought this to add to their collection. Kotaku has contacted Heritage Auctions regarding this game.

While $ 600 is much, much less than a million and a half dollars, it’s still an abnormal price to pay for a game that’s available on almost every video game platform released by Xbox 360 and PS3. Hell, Skyrim Enhanced Edition is available on Gamepass and includes all the extra DLCs. What makes this version of the game special, according to Heritage Auctions, is that it received a 9.2 rating from the Wata video game rating service. This means it’s in near-perfect condition, although that’s not that hard to believe considering the game isn’t even a decade old yet.

If you want to grab this copy of Skyrim for yourself, you can make a $ 900 offer to the new owner. But Heritage Auctions warns that they are currently not looking to sell and are not responding to most offers. So, good luck next time. (Please don’t spend $ 900 on a copy of Skyrim.)

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Skyrim wasn’t the only modern game to reach a higher-than-expected price point. The original Red Dead Redemption on Xbox 360 sold for $ 384. The slightly older original Tomb Raider, released on PS1 in 1996, sold for $ 144,000. These newer and less rare games sold at such high prices are further proof that the retro game collections scene is expanding. Chances are you might have something worth a few hundred dollars sitting in some closet right now. But as with all bubbles, it is likely that one day it will burst. So I wouldn’t be sitting on your sealed copy of Fallout 3 on PS3 for too long.

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