Before I was media and got games for review purposes I'd just wait till the end of a consoles life. Right when the new one comes out. People are ditching them for crazy cheap, particularly in the US. When everyone was moving to PS2 and Xbox I got the Dreamcast and 20 games for like 60 USD. Once the next gen is out though then nostalgia creeps back in and you see games going back up... like with the N64, Genesis, or NES... there were times though when you could barely give those games away. 🙂
Paul