My friends, I could use your advice on something. Behind me here is a small part of my game collection. These are games I have had since childhood, and I would love to know: should I even keep any of these? I have tons of games, and I have lots more systems. I have got an Xbox Series X, a PlayStation 5, and a Nintendo Switch. You can see all these controllers, and there are even more retro systems right there behind me.
My question is for you. These days, Gods Unchained is pretty much the only game I play when I am live on Twitch. That is the main game people want to watch. The game developer is engaged with the community, cares that I play the game, and has bounties. Gods Unchained is the only game that I see as worth playing right now. So the question is, should I get rid of all these?
What the collection is worth in cash
If I trade in or sell for cash, this Xbox Series X would probably sell for a couple hundred dollars, or I could put some more effort in and sell it for maybe 500. I have got a PlayStation 5 that would sell for 500. The Switch could probably sell easily for a couple hundred. And all these retro game systems, I could probably sell all this stuff for thousands of dollars, and it would not take that much time. It is just sitting here. I am not using it. Somebody else might actually use it. Do you think that would be the best thing for me to do?
One idea I keep coming back to is to sell everything and create a tournament. I could sell all this and buy something like Gods Unchained cards and hold them in my account, or give them away. I am asking this because, yes, it is nice to have a collection. I have had these games for over 20 years. I have had these games and I was playing a bunch of different games, so when I got the Xbox Series X, the PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch, and all these retro consoles, I was using them like every week. Sometimes I would play the Xbox Series X a bunch for a week, then I would play the PS5 a bunch the next week, then I would play several Switch games, then I would get on all the retro games I used to play. I used to use these and play them all the time.
Why I do not like keeping things I do not use
I do not like to keep around a bunch of stuff that I do not use. That said, my wife asked, how many times have you sold your consoles? I had an Xbox One. I bought a day-one Xbox One and gave it to my friend, bought another one, then sold that when I quit video games. When I came back to playing video games, I bought another one, and then sold that when I quit playing video games again. Then my friend gave me my day-one Xbox back again, which I then sold. So that is four different instances of having an Xbox One, and a similar experience with a PlayStation 4. Do not even get me into how many Xbox 360s I have had, all these other systems, and all the other stuff I have bought.
The main question is, should I just hold on to this stuff? Maybe in two years, if I one day want to play a retro game on stream instead of Gods Unchained. Or maybe in three months, if I want to play NBA Jam on stream one day instead of Gods Unchained. Should I just hold on to this stuff, or is there certain stuff I should let go, like sell the Xbox Series X, keep the PS5, sell the Nintendo Switch? I have got a gaming PC, so it seems unnecessary and opulent to have an Xbox Series X and a PS5 and a gaming PC and a Nintendo Switch when pretty much all I use is the gaming PC on a daily basis. I could trade or sell those for cash, and somebody else could have them.
I would love your feedback
So I would love to hear your feedback on this. The best way to talk this through with me, and to be part of conversations like it, is to join the Jerry Banfield Family community, where I share what I am thinking and hear directly from you. My wife's feedback is to just hold it. Who knows how long you will play Gods Unchained? Maybe you are going to quit Gods Unchained tomorrow, maybe you will quit in three months, six months, maybe a year, maybe two years, maybe you will never quit. In any case, you might as well just hold this stuff, because based on your past, you will end up buying it again.
I do have True Crime: Streets of LA, good call on that one. Another piece of advice I got was to keep your equipment unless you are moving to a smaller place. This studio is a shed I have got in the backyard, so unless this thing falls down, I do not have to move or go anywhere for the indefinite future. So I do not need to do anything with it, but I am wondering if it would be better to let this stuff go and trade it in for cash. If you want to see the games I actually play through, you can watch my Games playlist and let me know what you would do with a collection like this.