Don't count on too many more new MGS4 sales in JP. Looks like stores are already flooded with used copies.
Note this is what stores are paying YOU for a used copy, not what they are selling it for.
http://kotaku.com/5062959/japanese-retail-not-keen-on-used-mgs4-copies
While in Tokyo for TGS, game site Siliconera tried gauging lasting retail shop interest in MGS4: Shinjuku shop Tsutaya is offering ¥500 (US$4.88). There's one word for that and that is "ouch". For comparison sake, the same store is paying ¥3,800 ($37.07) for Cross Edge, ¥1,200 ($11.71) for Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, and ¥2,500 ($24.39) for the almost three-year-old Animal Crossing: Wild World.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
