FFXIII demo is practically the price of a full game in Japan.

[outlawauron]

FinalEvangelion said:

outlawauron said:

Gilgamesh said:

What about Gran Turismo 5 prologue isn't that basically a demo and many people bought it at 60 bucks

It was only $40 in US.

 

And all movies are expensive. This isn't the exception or a high mark up. These things are just that expensive.

Yep, Anime is often $60 to $80 for about 3 24-minute episodes in Japan.  TBH, I was almost expecting the ACC with demo to be at least 8000 yen.

The full FF XIII game will probably retail around 9000 yen like SO4, but most stores will probably sell it for about 7000.

 

It's just the way things work in Japan.

And that still blows my mind.