The blank copy of Skyrim sells for $ 600, despite all the ports

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

As spotted by Axes and a journalist there (good luck man!) an unopened copy of Skyrim sold for $ 600 on July 11. This was part of the same batch of items which included the outrageously overpriced price Super Mario 64, which also sold the same day for $ 1.5 million, although some onlookers raise their eyebrows at what is really going on.

It always breaks my brain to see a super easy to find game like Skyrim be sealed in one of those plastic boxes and sold on a website for that much money. It seems it was only yesterday that I picked up this game from my local GameStop and it is now selling for over half a grand. I’m usually quick to blame the rich, but in this case the price is fair low enough that it is most likely an outright hard Old scrolls fan bought this to add to their collection. Kotaku contacted Heritage Auctions about this game.

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

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

Skyrim wasn’t the only modern game to fetch a higher price tag than expected. The original Red Dead Redemption at Xbox 360 sold for $ 384. The slightly older original tomb Raider, released on PS1 in 1996, sold for a more impressive amount of $ 144,000. These newer, less rare games auctioned at such high prices are further proof that the retro game collection scene is booming. Chances are, you have something worth a few hundred dollars in a closet right now. But as with all bubbles, this one risks bursting one day. So I won’t sit on your sealed copy of Fallout 3 on PS3 too much long.