Who Will Be the Next Lik-Sang?

kukyfrope writes "Now that Sony has killed off Hong Kong retailer and Internet-import capital Lik-Sang, gamers must now find alternative outlets to import games and other goodies from Japan. Modojo has put up a nicely detailed list of some other online vendors that offer the sale of retail Japanese games to other international customers, featuring a few stores that can surely satisfy your import craving. 'The (now two) main Far East based export companies are Play-Asia and YesAsia. Both offer similar services (with the exception of Play-Asia's lack of European shipping for Sony products). So why would you prefer one over the other?'"

Comments

Re:News Byte I missed?

[eht]

Well you know, that "Related Stories" section, uhm, you might want to click the link there. It kind of spells out everything without rehashing it for the people that already know.

Question...

[sesshomaru]

Is this intended to be "Who will replace Lik-Sang?" or is it more like one of those Final Destination movies, "Who will Sony destroy next?"

For import gaming I always used National Console Support , I mainly used Lik-Sang for wierd stuff. So what I'm looking for is not a replacement import gaming place, but a replacement wierd stuff place. I suppose The Goat Store could help me replace some of this. (Note: An acronym for Games of all Types, some ./'s probably have an unreasonable fear of goats at this point.) Unfortunately, that's mainly a retro store, not a wierd stuff store. Telegames used to be good, but they've scaled back on the products they carry.

Re:YesAsia is legit

[twistedsymphony]

Even though this sites might offer imports the part I enjoyed most about Lik-Sang was all of the controller adapters, cable extenders, etc that they offered. Lik-Sang actually produced most of these products themselves, so something tells me it will take a while before another company really fully fills their shoes.

Where else am I going to buy a SmartJoy Frag, or a PS2 to Xbox controller adapter, or a Sega Saturn controller extender, etc. (my actual last 3 purchases from Lik-Sang) without having to battle the bowels of eBay.

Re:Do we know for certain that Sony did this?

[AKAImBatman]

Couldn't it be possible that Lik Sang is just taking advantage of negative Sony feedback over the past year to send another f-u to Sony? I find it hard to believe they'd be put out of business over this single issue, and the whole time not point any blame at the quasi grey market business that they were operating under.

Obviously, you weren't paying attention. Sony sued Lik-Sang in nearly every european country. Defending against one suit is expensive. Defending against dozens? Far too much for a small company like Lik-Sang. In fact, two separate judges expressed shock at the amount of money Sony's legal team was using to try the case. Sony wanted Lik-Sang dead, and they wanted it BAD.

Here is Lik-Sang's response to the fiction that Sony fed the press. Decide for yourself.

Me? I'm boycotting Sony. Feel free to join in.

Missing from the list

[Dracil]

The sites mentioned are severely lacking in doujin/Japanese PC games like the Touhou series and a lot of the Higurashi stuff (the original PC version only costs about $20 instead of $60-100 for the PS2 version). Similar situation with Fate/Stay Night. http://www.himeyashop.com/ and http://www.paletweb.com/ fill that void quite well, especially for non-console gamers like me.

I'm sure lik-sang will be back. . .

[MrJynxx]

Lik-sang will be back. They put themselves out of business in order to get around the sony lawsuits.

But what's the stop the owners to open it up under a different name all together?

MrJynxx