| o_O.Q said: these are place holder prices which are usually inflated at first... |
Exactly. It hedges your bets on pre-orders, since there's next to no chance Nintendo will actually sell it for that much or more (and if it were more, the store might be required to honor the original pre-order price, so you can't take a more rational guess for fear it might be wrong)

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







