KichiVerde said:
It is very rare. Only a few specialty stores in electronic and gaming centers like Akihabara handle imports. Most are the Asian Versions (NTSC-J for Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) since they are usually released at the same time as European and American versions. This is done to help reduce the circulation of pirated copies. The Japanese version of overseas games however usually come out much later after the American and European ones. Sometimes after half a year or more. The original GoW came out here in Feb., not Nov. It is really lame for the Japanese consumer and it is one of the reasons the X-BOX has not done so well. Another problem is the lack of marketing late games get. |
Don't judge to fast. 80% of japanese games came here 1-9 months later. I'm still waiting for Tales of Vesperia in Europe.
