scarcity

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Scarcity shapes both markets and mindsets: as physical retro games become rarer and pricier through grading, scalping, and a boom in demand, ownership shifts from cheap nostalgia to exclusive investments. Marketers can exploit or educate around real scarcity, using psychology to understand when demand is manufactured versus genuine. Meanwhile, true ownership in on-chain items creates verifiable, real-time scarcity that changes strategy and competition in gaming economies.