Do the Japanese Care About Final Fantasy III DS?

Via Spong

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.

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I myself have bought a copy of the ORIGINAL FFIII on famicom and a Famicom console just for it. This is defiantly one of the best FF's of it's era (NES) and I love it to bits :D I'll be pre-buying this as soon as humanly possible and I can't say I'm not surprised half a million japanese gamers have too.

slice of pizza ?

My friend bought a DS just so he could play this game. Funny thing is that he already beat it on his PDA using an NES emulator.