OMG YES, as an FF fan I need this. Its by far the sexiest 3DS yet imo. But its only confirmed for JP =(

Now Im left on the fence waiting for an announcement for a western release or importing before it sells out

That 3DS will never see the light of day outside of Japan, luckly the game should come out for us non-Japanese.

I'm kinda surprised it received its own 3DS. Was the FF Theatrhythm game that successful?

If they removed the image and had just black with the moogles and chocobos it would look better.

According to VGChartz data it sold less than 500,000 and sold more in the US than it did in Japan.  Even with that, the system will still more than likely remain Japanese exclusive

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When Japan gets something exclusive, it's usually argued that it won't make much money in the west, but what about when the same game sold more in the west and Japan is still getting an exclusive release.  I honestly think the Japanese are racist against the west, so where publishing something wouldn't make them much money, they don't care, but publishing something that they think will make them high profit, they're good with that.  Yet in Japan, they're fine with releasing something that will make them a marginable amount of income.

Not everyone is racist though.  NIS releases just about everything they've got over to the west despite marginal returns.  Not that I'm a fan of NIS games.  Except for Prinny and Prinny 2, I think most of what they've developed is pretty mediocre.

So it was decently successful for a spin off then. Yeah, I dont see it leaving Japan anytime soon either.

I agree.  That would be awesome.  I would proudly rock that.

I know this thing on top should probably be a crystal but it just looks too much like a rupee to me.
That completely threw me off and I had to look sharply that it really is not Zelda.

Crystal vs Blue Rupee =P

Yeah but look at the one on the 3DS. It's longer and totally looks like a rupee.