wraggster
August 4th, 2006, 14:32
Via Spong (http://news.spong.com/article/10504)
According to reports from our friends in the Japanese press, retailers in the RPG-obsessed land of Japan have begun taking pre-orders for Final Fantasy III, the somewhat anticipated series filler for the Nintendo DS. And amazingly, with a month before the game hits store-shelves, a massive 450,000 customers have paid upfront for their chance to kill things in a turn-based fashion.
It would seem that interest in a Famicom remake (albeit the only game in the series never to see a proper global release) outstrips demand across the board in Japanese game retail right now, a telling indicator of the power of the Lite-revived DS and hard-wired addiction consumers have to all things Square.
It was not explained how many pre-orders were linked to sales of these little beauties. Though given that in real-terms, a Lite costs as much as a slice of pizza in Japan, we can only assume it's a lot.
According to reports from our friends in the Japanese press, retailers in the RPG-obsessed land of Japan have begun taking pre-orders for Final Fantasy III, the somewhat anticipated series filler for the Nintendo DS. And amazingly, with a month before the game hits store-shelves, a massive 450,000 customers have paid upfront for their chance to kill things in a turn-based fashion.
It would seem that interest in a Famicom remake (albeit the only game in the series never to see a proper global release) outstrips demand across the board in Japanese game retail right now, a telling indicator of the power of the Lite-revived DS and hard-wired addiction consumers have to all things Square.
It was not explained how many pre-orders were linked to sales of these little beauties. Though given that in real-terms, a Lite costs as much as a slice of pizza in Japan, we can only assume it's a lot.