I used to sell those imports @ www.buyrite.net , and I can tell you, RPG's are like sports games are in the US. Thousands of Japanese are willing to pay out the wazoo for all those little extras. Here in the US, there is a market, but sales wouldn't justify the costs. Kinda like Studio for Linux ;) Most of the import crowd either chips their console or just buys a jap system, so they can play the japanese stuff and buy from their favorite import house. Some of these special edition packages cost a lot though. A lot of them are one time limited edition runs, and the distributors are technically not allowed to ship them overseas, because the Sony's, and Nintendo's want to be able to sell the game twice to different markets. A lot of times we actually had to get someone to go to all the games stores in Tokyo looking for stuff and shipping in over here. Europe is a whole other deal...I wish they wouldn't have gone with PAL just to be a little different. It may be slightly better than NTSC, but Eurpoeans end up paying more, and getting stuff later.
-- Jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, July 18, 2002, 9:29:46 AM, you wrote: RC> I assume you in Europe then? RC> Ok, time for a rant. I HATE how game publishers create different RC> versions of games for different markets. Consider - FFX has an RC> 'international' version of the game with cool extras. Why? Why screw RC> over your fans in one country by making them feem like they are missing RC> out on the whole experience? I can see not bringing a game to market - RC> the Japense have some _wierd_ tastes in games - but making multiple RC> versions like this simply leaves one segment of your market feeling left RC> out. RC> -Ray >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:22 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: RE: Xbox (Was: Neverwinter Nights) >> >> >> > > GT3 Prototype should be out now, waiting for it here >> > >> > What?? I thought it was only being released in Japan. It's >> coming to >> > the states too? >> >> Not sure about the States, but it comes out here on Friday - >> I got my copy yesterday, but haven't tried it yet ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
