prinny? hmmm there are australian prinnies aren't there.

He lives on a farm, and his parents just randomly got him Batman because he said he wanted it. Cost then about $90 USD. Seems pretty overpriced to me, and I know I've heard other people from different countries on this and other sites mention how games and consoles are priced so high in their country that it's often hard to buy games.

But he is not a Prinny. I am.

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.

If GT5 is coming out in a $60 price I'm not buying this until it drops price.

The RRP for a full-price new release game in Australia is $120 AUD. Converted to USD, that's about $105, at the current exchange rate. Not only are our games almost twice the price, but we get the European versions of games, which means that we see a delay at least as long as Europe to get any game. Or console. Remember when everyone was raging about $599 USD for a Playstation 3? It debuted at $1000 AUD here, not only that, it was 4 months late, and because it was the European version, was never released with an SKU that included hardware-based backwards compatibility (only crappy software emu).

Some games are never released here at all, such as Rock Band 2.

Also I'm sure you're all well aware of our archaic game classification system, which, due to a lack of a mature rating, means we see even longer delays for games while we wait for them to get censored to squeeze into what is essentially a Teen ESRB rating (GTA IV, Fallout 3).

Of course for some games this is damn-near impossible, so they simply get banned, such as Left 4 Dead 2.

Australia fails at video games.

I bet here at Australia we'll be paying $120 for the standard edition. I'll be getting the limited edition if SE decides to make one over here. That'll be priced $150.

Tenma,

Where's your source on that FFVI price? I found a 6900 yen price on it.

sheesh and i claim $60 price tags are robbery.

yeah but whats your minimum wage in aus?

different countries different fees.

people in japan get more money for their work than US obviously, so everything is much expensive.
same thing can be said in australia.