What Is a Nintendo DS, Game Boy or PSP Worth in Australia?

Where these prices come from

Every figure on this page comes from new Facebook Marketplace listings that Outpost Alerts tracked for its users’ watchlists on “nintendo ds”, “gameboy” and “psp” in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra, from 2 June to 2 October 2026. It was measured on 2 October 2026.

The raw searches pick up far more than consoles, so the listings were cleaned before anything was counted:

• Anything listed under A$15 was dropped.
• Titles mentioning games, cartridges, cases, chargers, styluses, bags, covers, screen protectors, bundles, lots, collections, parts, faults or “wanted” were dropped, so what is left is mostly the console on its own.
• The model was read from the title. A listing titled just “Nintendo DS” or “PSP” with no model was left out, because those mix several models with very different prices.

Three things to keep in mind when you read the tables. First, these are asking prices, not sold prices. Sellers ask for what they hope to get; some of these listings sold below the asking price and some never sold. Second, the median is the middle listing: half asked less, half asked more. Third, the middle half is the range covering the central 50% of listings, which tells you where a normal price sits far better than an average that one A$1,000 “rare” listing can drag upwards.

Some models are missing on purpose. The original 3DS had a middle half so wide that games and accessories were clearly slipping through the filter, the original Game Boy and untitled “DS” or “PSP” listings were too mixed to trust, and the PSP 2000 and PSP Go had too few listings to say anything useful.

Game Boy prices: Color, Pocket, Advance, SP and Micro

The Game Boy family made up 1,657 of the listings. The spread inside each model is wide, because a tired original-screen unit and a modded one with a new shell and a backlit screen share the same name in a Marketplace title.

The Game Boy Advance is the clearest example of why a median on its own is not enough. Its median of A$130 sits close to the Color’s, but its middle half runs from A$50 to A$240, the widest of any model here. At the bottom are plain original units listed by people clearing a cupboard; at the top are units that have been reshelled or fitted with a brighter screen. If you see one in the A$50s that powers on and has a clean screen, it is at the cheap end of a market where plenty of sellers ask four times that.

The SP is the most consistent of the family, with a middle half of A$150 to A$299. It has a lit screen and a built-in rechargeable battery, so even an unmodified one is easy to use today, and sellers seem to know it. The Micro is the scarce one: only 62 listings in four months, and the widest top end, which is typical of an item people treat as a collectable.

Nintendo DS and 3DS prices: DS Lite to New 3DS XL

The DS and 3DS family made up 1,587 listings. Prices climb almost exactly with the generation, from the DS Lite at the bottom to the New 3DS XL at the top.

Three things stand out. The DS Lite is the most affordable way into the family and has the tightest range, A$80 to A$150, so it is the easiest model to price confidently: a working one well under A$80 is a genuinely cheap listing. The jump from the DSi XL to the 3DS XL is the biggest step in the table, because the 3DS line plays both 3DS and DS games. And the 2DS XL asks the same median as the 3DS XL, A$350, even though it drops the 3D screen; buyers care about the library more than the 3D effect.

The original 3DS is not in the table. Its median came out at A$160, but its middle half ran from A$40 to A$300, which is a sign that game-only and accessory listings were still slipping through. Treat any figure you see for it, here or elsewhere, with care.

PSP prices: 1000 and 3000

The PSP was a much smaller sample, 108 listings across the two models with enough data to report.

The 3000 is the later, slimmer model with the improved screen, and it asks about A$90 more at the median. With roughly 50 listings each over four months across six cities, these two figures are a fair guide but not a precise one; a single city sees only a handful of each in a month. The PSP 2000 and PSP Go each had about 25 listings, which is too few to report.

The small numbers are a useful fact in themselves. If you want a specific PSP, you may see only a few listings near you in a month, so missing one matters more than it does for a DS Lite.

What moves the price of a particular console

The tables tell you what the typical listing asks. Where a particular console lands inside its range comes down to a handful of things a buyer can check in a photo or in person.

• The exact model. The biggest single factor, as the tables show. A DSi XL and a DS Lite look alike in a blurry photo and ask nearly double. Check the model on the label underneath or in the system settings, not just the title.
• The screens. Scratches, dead pixels, a yellowed or dim top screen and, on hinged models, a flickering screen when you open and close the lid. On a DS or 3DS, check both screens and the touch response.
• The hinge and shell. Cracked hinges are a common fault on clamshell models. Shell scuffs matter less to players than to collectors, and a fresh aftermarket shell can raise the asking price while lowering the appeal to purists.
• Modifications. Backlit or brighter replacement screens and new shells on Game Boy models push listings to the top of their range. Whether that is worth paying for depends on whether you want to play it or keep it original.
• What is included. A charger and stylus add a little; a box and manual add more for collectors. Games would add a lot, but listings that mentioned games were filtered out of these figures, so price the games separately.
• Working condition. Every figure here is for a console without a fault in the title. A unit that is not tested is a different, cheaper item, whatever the seller asks.

If you are selling rather than buying, the median is a sensible place to start for a clean, working console with a charger, and the top of the middle half is where a boxed or carefully restored one belongs. A clear title with the exact model in it matters more than the photos; the guide to writing listings that sell covers the rest.

If you are buying to resell, remember that these are asking prices. Your margin is the gap between what you pay and what a buyer will actually hand over, which is usually somewhat under the asking median. The guide to the best things to flip on Marketplace compares consoles with other categories on effort and turnover, and negotiating on Marketplace covers how to get from the asking price to a fair one.

Why the cheap ones are gone before you see them

Every model in these tables has a bottom quarter: listings priced below the middle half. Those are the ones worth buying, and they share a pattern. They are usually posted by someone who is not a collector, often a parent clearing a bedroom or someone moving house, who prices the console to be gone by the weekend.

A DS Lite listed at A$60 in a market where the middle half asks A$80 to A$150 does not wait for you. It collects messages within minutes from the handful of people watching that search closely, and it is usually marked pending within the hour. If you see it at lunch, after it went up at 9:40, you see a listing you can no longer buy.

Refreshing more often does not solve it. Checking Marketplace ten times a day still leaves gaps of an hour or more, and the cheap listings appear and disappear inside those gaps. Facebook’s own saved searches were built for this, but their timing varies by account and region and they cannot drop the game-only and charger-only listings that flood a console search. Knowing when console listings tend to go up helps you plan when to look; it does not put you first on the one listed while you were busy.

Knowing the price is half of the job. The other half is seeing the listing early enough for the price to matter.

Where Outpost Alerts fits

Outpost Alerts is an Australian-built service that watches Facebook Marketplace for new listings matching your keywords and sends them to an iPhone app, a web dashboard or Discord. Facebook Marketplace only. It searches from its own servers, so it does not need your Facebook login.

The tables above turn straight into a watchlist. For a DS Lite, for example:

• Search phrase: ds lite
• Must not contain: case, charger only, faulty, for parts, wtb, games only
• Price range: A$15 to A$80, the bottom of the middle half, so anything that matches is cheaper than about three in four comparable listings
• Location: one city and a radius of 5 to 500 km; use one watchlist per city if you want more than one

Avoid “game” as an exclude word on a Game Boy watchlist, or you will exclude every listing you want; exclude words match anywhere inside a word. The ready-made console watchlists have tested lists for each model, and the guide to exclude words explains the traps.

Outpost also checks whether each match is actually the item you searched for, which catches what no word list anticipates. Across 30,777 listings that matched a keyword, 38.6% were discarded as not the item searched for. On a console watchlist that is the empty shells, the “looking for” posts and the game lots that slipped past the excludes.

Your fastest watchlist is checked every minute on Pro, every three minutes on Standard and every thirty minutes on Basic; the others run less often (three minutes or more on Pro, five minutes or more on Standard). Basic has one watchlist, Standard five and Pro ten. There is no free plan; every plan starts with a three-day trial.

What it will not do is value a console, test it, or tell you a listing is a scam. You still check the model, the screens and the hinge in person, and the guide to Marketplace scams covers paying safely. What it changes is whether you see the A$60 DS Lite while it is still available. For the wider habit of spotting a cheap listing in any category, see how to find underpriced items.

FAQ

Sources checked

• Outpost Alerts listing data: asking prices on new Facebook Marketplace listings tracked in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra, 2 June to 2 October 2026, for watchlists on “nintendo ds”, “gameboy” and “psp”. Listings under A$15 and titles mentioning games, accessories, bundles, lots, parts, faults or “wanted” excluded; model read from the title. Asking prices, not sold prices (measured 2 October 2026).

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