Retailer Slashes Final Fantasy XIII's Price In Half

[wraggster]

Not only are used copies of Final Fantasy XIII not worth very much money, new copies of the game are cheap, cheap, cheap. Great news if you haven't bought the game.

The PS3 game went on sale on December 17 for ¥9,240 (US$102). Shops have been buying back the game for ¥1,500.

Retailer Sofmap in Tokyo's Akihabara has stacks and stacks of Final Fantasy XIII. Yours for ¥3,980 ($44), but this is a limited time sale promotion. To point to this as a sign that FFXIII was some sort of failure in Japan is a mistake. It's not that at all.

However, it does show that retailers might have ordered too many copies of the game and are trying to unload copies. Bad for them, but good thing for consumers! If you haven't already, go pick up your copy at 59 percent off. Do it.

http://kotaku.com/5469394/retailer-s...-price-in-half

[Qmark]

Is there a logical reason why the "full" price is $104? Yen exchange?

If Squeenix is grossly overcharging for a game that's reportedly not very good, it can't end well.

[symbal]

As much as i love the Japanese there is a crazy amount of people buying special edition versions of games with like $3 worth of extra paper and plastic for an extra $60, and paying stupid amounts for the latest RPG's, to me it seems like football fans who feel obligated to buy all the latest strips to show everyone else how big a fan they are.

[jxx2005]

$100+
What?!

[Shrygue]

£65 full price is well steep for a game. As if £45 wasn't high enough.