In certain polite regions of the world, one would focus more on the fact that Microsoft recently announced that there will be a gaming bundle for FFXIII, including a copy of said game, a new console, and controllers, retailing at a cost of about $400.
In other news, the price of the game alone, despite all hype and manner of Famitsu reviews, has dropped considerably since the first week. It is nothing out of the ordinary for a game to drop in price, but this one seems a bit much, especially for such a high-profile game. Before, one could simply claim that it was the flooding of product that caused a drop in secondhand retailers, but now that the store-approved price is less than half of where it started, it may be time for SE to re-evaluate the situation. The price has gone from 9240 Yen to 3980 Yen (nearly a third of the original price) in a manner of a month and a half.
Source: 360 Bundle (FFXIII.net, MS PR Newswire), Price Drop (Sankaku, NSFW; Article 1, Article 2, Article 3)
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