Second-hand gaming in Sydney typically sells for A$10 to A$1,700 (about $7 to $1,200). Generation and completeness set the price. A console with its original controller, cables and box is worth substantially more than the same console loose in a carrier bag.
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Buying gaming in Sydney
Sydney is Australia’s largest city and its most expensive to live in, which pushes people into smaller flats and shorter tenancies than the house-and-garden stereotype suggests.
Older machines depend on cables and power supplies that are now hard to source separately, and a console arriving without the right one is unusable. Seeing the whole set connected and working is the only way to know it is complete.
What to check in person
Play for a good while rather than a minute, because overheating and fan trouble only show once the machine is warm. Push both sticks through their full range to find drift, and try each trigger and shoulder button in turn.
Collecting it in Sydney
It fits in a bag, so most people meet on the way to something else. A station or a high street works, and neither side needs a car.
The city sprawls a long way and traffic between the inner suburbs and the outer ones is the real cost of a collection, so most people arrange to meet near a train station on their own side of the city rather than crossing it. Parking near the harbour is scarce and expensive.
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Rental turnover in the inner suburbs is high and leases commonly run six or twelve months, so households here reshuffle far more often than owner-occupied ones. Summer is when the water gear changes hands and winter is when it sits unsold.
Photograph the machine actually powered up and running a game, which answers the only question that matters. Give the model and revision number from the underside, and state the storage size rather than leaving it to be guessed. Peaks sharply before Christmas and again when a new console generation is announced.
Bank transfer via PayID is instant and is what most private buyers will offer. Cash on collection remains common for larger items.
Gaming worth listing in Sydney
Same region (New South Wales)
If nothing in Sydney suits, Newcastle, Wollongong and Albury each have their own gaming page, and a seller will often meet part of the way for something worth the trip.
More in Sydney: everything second hand in Sydney, or Gaming across Australia.
Prices converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate; sellers set their own price.