Final Fantasy XIII To Cost $89 In Japan?

By Brian Ashcraft, 9:00 PM on Wed Sep 2 2009, 7,051 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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That red kiosk is called "Loppi". It's located in Japanese convenience store Lawson. It's a ticket selling machine, but customers can also go shopping and even pre-order video games and consoles.

The Loppi screen lists the Xbox 360, the PSP 2000 and right below that? Final Fantasy XIII. The game is priced at ¥8,240 (US$88.99) and pre-orders start September 9 at 10:00AM.

For comparison's sake, Tales of Vesperia for the PS3 is priced at ¥7,800 and Bayonetta is priced at ¥7,980.

Square Enix has announced that FFXIII is out "This Winter".

【速報】FF13の年内発売ほぼ確定か、価格や具体的な発売日を推測できる情報が流出 [GIGAZINE]

http://kotaku.com/5351456/final-fantasy-xiii-to-cost-89-in-japan

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Pre-orders begin on 9th sep.......why on 9th sep?

is there some announcement for it coming soon?

ANYWAY $89.....I thought us UK people got ripped off!

The price of the game is going to be well worth it, so I don't see the problem.

Maybe it comes with a guide or something

Wasn't Dragon Quest IX like 9000 yen or something?

Edit: Was thinking about DQVI... and it was 11000 yen.

@Okey_Dokey

so FF13 is CHEAPER than DQIX

FF13 = low budget game confirmedz?!

Wow... SE sure is Arrogant...

SE 2005: We are going to take 3 years to make this game and it will be on for sure.

SE 2006: Eveythings doing fine we may have it out next year!

SE 2007: Not coming this year but dont worry 2008 is the year eveyone will enjoy the best RPG ever made this gen of gaming!

SE 2008: Oh-- ya' know wut? how bout' we give Xbox 360 owners a chance to play FFXIII to? ya-ya sounds great just one moar year 4 porting please! (Excuse.)

SE 2009 (Presnt Day.): ITS REALLY ALMOST HERE FF Fans! But you gotta pay twice as much for a normal edition in our home country because we know you love our final fantasies so much j00 true fans won't mind much rite?

/end SE's FFXIII Crusade

Really though to bad for the japanese doods, this a rip even for a FF game thats taken its sweet time to be done with and made already.

If this happens to the UK/EU/NA i wonder what everone will think about it?

God dammit Activision and Square >..

Ergh people, EVERY FF has been priced like this in JAPAN

but this will never happen in EU/UK, it will be $60 here

stop acting so surprised......DQIX cost $100 + on launch

SE is holding there annual party conference thing on Sep 8th. There rumored to announce the release date of FFXIII(in Japan) at this convention. So it's only fitting to start pre-ordering the following day.

O.o Holy shit that sucks to be in Japan then...