By the way this is still a pretty big deal...
The only games that cost 8800 Yen in the past were Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Metal Gear games have never cost more than 7000 yen and have still never sold 1 million copies in Japan. This will significantly hurt sales of MGS4 in the land of the rising sun. Don't expect a blockbuster over there.
| naznatips said: By the way this is still a pretty big deal... The only games that cost 8800 Yen in the past were Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. Metal Gear games have never cost more than 7000 yen and have still never sold 1 million copies in Japan. This will significantly hurt sales of MGS4 in the land of the rising sun. Don't expect a blockbuster over there. |
I seriously don't think this will effect sales much. I think the kind of people that are going to buy Metal Gear Solid would buy it anyway. Of course we have no idea what it'll sell, so I'll never be able to prove what I just said.
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| Wojtas said: Dude......that game costs 90$ if my internet currency exchanger is correct. |
Huh?! I'm pretty sure special edition in our beloved country will cost 299 PLN -> $133,5... DMC4 SE is a bit cheaper - 249 PLN -> $111 
C'mon Wojtas nothing strange here. You pay almost $80 for Wii games... you shouldn't be surprised with this pricing 
I know that it will cost an arm and a leg here in Poland (maybe a nut as well) but i didn't think that prices would be so high in Japan. That's the only thing that i was actually surprised about.
Then again, it got me thinking whether this might be the first PS3 game to cost over 70$ in the US? Expect low sales for MGS4 on the PS3. At least in Japan.
EDIT: Just checked out Gameplay internet shop and found MGS4 being sold for 40 quid w/o shipping. With the current exchange rate between pln and gbp the game would cost 180 pln. Great deal for the gamers in Poland, Metal Gear is bound to be priced over 250 pln in your average electronic shop.
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The people who will buy MGS4 at launch won't care what the price is.
I doubt this will hurt launch sales, but those legs are gonna disappear. Assuming it would have legs in Japan anyway.
There is no such thing as a console war. This is the first step to game design.
| TWRoO said: That is a damn fine colour, and in fact looks better than the black (I thought the white PS3 was ugly and the silver is boring by the way) Due to the obsessiveness of Japan's MGS4 fanbase and their general enthusiasm for new colours that bundle will sell well. |
Well the MGS fanbase in Japan isn't very large since none of the previous games sold over 1 million. Did you see the sales after the last new color (Silver), sales were and still are terrible.
Anyway, did you see this from the IGN article posted above:
"We currently don't have specifics on the internals of the hardware bundle's PS3 unit. Looking at the price, the package costs about 3,000 yen more than the cost of a 40 gigabyte PS3 and the MGS4 Special Edition, so we're wondering if there's more to the package than meets the eye, especially considering that the latest PS3 hardware bundle for Yakuza 3 actually represented a price of a couple of thousand yen over purchasing the hardware separately from the game."
WTH? So you actually pay more to buy the bundle as opposed to the stuff separately? Aren't bundles usually at least the same price or cheaper or possibly come with extra non-bundle goodies...
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| smbu2000 said: Well the MGS fanbase in Japan isn't very large since none of the previous games sold over 1 million. Did you see the sales after the last new color (Silver), sales were and still are terrible. Anyway, did you see this from the IGN article posted above: "We currently don't have specifics on the internals of the hardware bundle's PS3 unit. Looking at the price, the package costs about 3,000 yen more than the cost of a 40 gigabyte PS3 and the MGS4 Special Edition, so we're wondering if there's more to the package than meets the eye, especially considering that the latest PS3 hardware bundle for Yakuza 3 actually represented a price of a couple of thousand yen over purchasing the hardware separately from the game." WTH? So you actually pay more to buy the bundle as opposed to the stuff separately? Aren't bundles usually at least the same price or cheaper or possibly come with extra non-bundle goodies... |
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I am curious to see what is on that special edition Blu-Ray disc. The pricing is kind of gay by the way.
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You're going to offend a lot of people by your choice of adjectives akuma.
I would suggest changing it to something more appropriate.
Exercise your vocabulary.
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