@johnsobas
As Naz mentioned in the previous post, "Japanese retail games are built with much more price flexability than American retail games."
The pricing strategy for video games in Japan is very different than NA. Western games are extremely cheap over there, in comparison to Japanese games. Let me give you some examples:
MGS4 8800 yen; Yakuza 3 7800 yen; Disgaea 3 special edition 9240 yen; DMC4 8300 yen
Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank, and Heavenly Sword all priced at 5980 yen.
I really don't think the pricing of MGS4 is that "unacceptable" for Japanese. If Disgaea 3 + one theme song CD dare to charge them that much, it should be OK for MGS4's price tag.
My point in my previous post is, the exchange ratio of US currency has altered the way we feel about the price of games in different markets.
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