Why are you all making a big deal for NORMAL Japanese price? And you don't live in Japan FFXIII will be the standard price for your region like USA $59.99
9,240 yen isn't too bad considering FF X and XII's price
And
Other big budget PS3/360 games.
Resident Evil 5 was 8,800 yen and Metal Gear Solid 4 8,800 yen.
Star Ocean 4 8,925 yen
Tekken 6 8,379 yen
Bayonetta 7,980 yen
Yakuza 3 7.980 yen
And if you want to save money if your were a Japanese customer you could pre order FFXIII off Amazon Japan right now for 7.387 yen 1.853 yen off basically 20% percent off.
And for FF in general of past prices
Final Fantasy VI 11,400 yen
Final Fantasy VII 6,800 yen
Final Fantasy VIII 7,800 yen
Final Fantasy IX 7,800 yen
Final Fantasy X 8,800 yen
Final Fantasy X-2 7,800 yen
Final Fantasy XII 8,990 yen
Dragon Quest VI on Super Famicom 11,970 yen
Dragon Quest VII 7,800 yen
Dragon Quest VIII 8,800 yen
Dragon Quest IX 5,980 yen
Music cds are generally 2,500 yen range sometimes in the 3,000 yen range.
DVDs 3,000-8,000 yen... most american movies 4,000-5,000 yen
Only cheap entertainment manga 400-620 yen for a single volume.240-300 yen for big weekly magazines.
1000 yen range for bunko volumes which are re-releases of old series with about sometimes 2 and half to 3 volumes in 1.
Although for games there is always the reissue that is like 2,990 yen - 3,990 yen.
Anyways if you wanna complain talk about Tales of Vesperia 7,800 yen its already been released once on 360 and its low budget compared to FFXIII
Anyways Super Famicom(SNES) games were so high price for RPGs for 1.The Size 2.Nintendo's video game monopoly in Japan then mixed with their greed and 3 Cost to make cartridges was high. Its a reason why Sega and Sony went the CD-Rom route for Saturn and Playstation.And PC's used Floppy Disc and CD-Rom.
I don't know the exact Yen price but Final Fantasy IV and V were also close to 9,000 yen back when they came on Super Famicom and Dragon Quest 3 remake was like 9,800 yen or 9.980 yen something like that. And Dragon Quest V was likely around 9,000 yen when it came out.
