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December 17th, 2009, 06:50
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/12/500x_lightning.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/12/lightning.jpg)The delicate cherry blossom of the hardware world, the "Lightning Edition" of the PlayStation 3 (http://kotaku.com/5366512/first-look-at-the-final-fantasy-xiii-playstation-3), is out today in Japan (http://kotaku.com/5428278/final-fantasy-xiii-launch-day-with-our-man-in-tokyo). Know where else it's being released? Korea.
It'll be the exact same deal as the Japanese edition - custom console, controller, copy of Final Fantasy XIII (http://kotaku.com/tag/finalfantasyxiii/) - only, for Koreans. It'll be out on January 29, 2010, and will retail for 540,000 Won, which works out to be around USD$460.
While being released in Korea isn't the surest sign the pack will make it to the West - after all, the Korean market gets a lot of Japanese hand-me-downs - you can probably take the news and forge a small crucible of hope from it.
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It'll be the exact same deal as the Japanese edition - custom console, controller, copy of Final Fantasy XIII (http://kotaku.com/tag/finalfantasyxiii/) - only, for Koreans. It'll be out on January 29, 2010, and will retail for 540,000 Won, which works out to be around USD$460.
While being released in Korea isn't the surest sign the pack will make it to the West - after all, the Korean market gets a lot of Japanese hand-me-downs - you can probably take the news and forge a small crucible of hope from it.
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More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/KbpOLWKEmvQ/korea-also-gets-that-custom-ffxiii-playstation-3-console)