>>46261293At least for sealed product prices have always gone up 2-3 years after production has ceased. Too easy to take advantage of that. Not to mention Nintendo loves to follow the "scarcity" model that made beanie babies so successful (well temporary). The switch is always having shortages despite being one of the best selling systems.
But besides that you have covid which made people stay at home and google pokemon and other things they're for nostalgic for. along with general inflation of fiat currency. It's not just pokemon that is up but sports cards, retro video games, gym equipment, outdoor equipment, gold, crypto, tech stocks, comics, stamps, records, sneakers, coins, etc, etc
Pokemon makes a good story though so social media influencers and the media like to post stories for views
