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Some PS3 Games to Cost $75 in Japan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-yen dept.

Gamasutra reports on pricing for PS3 games in Japan, where some titles may rise as high as (equivalently) $75. From the article: "Japanese game prices can vary considerably across even a single format, depending on the title. Higher profile games, such as the recent Nintendo DS title Final Fantasy III, are often sold at an increased price. Similarly, Xbox 360 titles Dead Rising and Lost Planet will be priced at ¥8,379 ($72) when they are released — ¥1,000 to ¥2,000 ($9 to $17) more than usual. Tecmo's Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 will be sold at an even more excessive ¥9,240 ($79)."

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  1. Re:Why is this singling out Sony? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, here's something hilarious:

    How will the handheld version of the new low-end Nintendo-console be called?

    Wii in your pants

    (Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.)

  2. So much for that experiment... by argStyopa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What I find so amusing/ironic/sad is that Linden Labs had built 2nd Life on a kind of cool idea - a pseudo-utopian experiment where they were going to build the world and, as I understood it, essentially keep their hands off, letting the social systems and communities grow organically.

    Until something doesn't fit their PC-vision of what utopia should be, apparently.

    Like utopian socialists whose Pollyanna ideals of "from each...to each..." don't quite survive their impact with the real world, they then turn to despotism to FORCE people to conform to (what they think) is best. The Lindens don't seem to hesitate to employ a mechanistic "hand of god" when it suits them.

    Hint: Tyranny for a good reason is still tyranny. It's their world, their money (mostly), and they can ultimately do what they like, of course.

    But what value is a 'virtual' version of Biosphere II, if the irresistable, implacable Hand of God can come in and magically set things right?

    I was peripherally involved in the "Jesse War" so many ages ago, and I was saddened then as I'm saddened now. They have chosen once AGAIN to insinuate themselves directly in world-affairs and thus taint the entire experiment.

    Wouldn't it have been MORE interesting to see how the community might have handled this WITHIN the bounds of the tools available to the avatars in-game? It might have provided a creative insight to our real-world issues of IP, patent, and copyright infringement.

    Experiments are worthless if it's impossible for them to go wrong. If they can only travel down the pre-planned course, that's not an experiment, that's NARRATIVE. How do you study how the human animal behaves in the wild, if every misbehaving member of the study group is removed? What sort of valid result will that leave you?

    But no, unless we have the magic Hand of God who can fix things in real life for us, too?

    --
    -Styopa