You also get to enjoy exorbitant pricing of many Japanese entertainment goods! …

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Comment on IdolMaster 2 Announced for PS3 by Shippoyasha:

You also get to enjoy exorbitant pricing of many Japanese entertainment goods!

Shippoyasha made other comments on this post:

• IdolMaster 2 Announced for PS3:
  

  I’m thinking that it could work if at least because this economy is so bad that two major companies going against eachother could be detrimental. I do think they could all go portable if it keeps up but I hear the cost to make games is so high, many portable games are getting cancelled too.

• IdolMaster 2 Announced for PS3:
  

  I think people should be more worried that game companies do DLCs and rips people off like this. Have to feel sorry for the original buyers of any game nowadays. I didn’t even play games when games apparently had zero DLC. =/

• IdolMaster 2 Announced for PS3:
  

  Isn’t the next Xbox and Playstation possibly going to be a single entity if the crazy rumors are true? I hope that happens. ‘betrayal’ in the gaming community.. yuck.

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