Final Fantasy XIII Price Plummets
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 2, 2010 17:09 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Production Controversy, PS3, RPG, Square Enix
Game retail watchers can’t help but note that the price offered for second hand copies of Final Fantasy XIII has plummeted to about $15, despite the game initially retailing at almost $100.
Top second-hand game seller Geo’s price list shows they are offering a paltry ¥1,500 for used copies of the game, which was released at ¥9,240:
The same list shows the much older Perfect Tales of Vesperia to be worth more than twice as much as Final Fantasy XIII, with Geo offering ¥3,100 for it; indeed, there is no RPG being bought up so cheaply.
Low demand and high supply are presumably at fault here, for reasons which by now are painfully obvious.
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Now is the perfect time to buy a 2nd hand FFXIII. $15 is what FFXIII really worth it. thanks Arte
"price offered"
"they are offering"
Please learn to read.
Notice how the first comment is rated up?
Clearly more than one person lacks reading ability. :)
I know, there was a previous article in which everyone leapt to the same conclusion. Still working on a fool-proof wording for this which doesn't involve capslock.
Don't use "they", use the specific group.
"Offer*" is a bit vague as well since it works for both buying and selling, and when combined with the generic "they" it requires to much attention to the sentence structure and previous nouns used for a skimmer to easily and reliably parse.
The readers must think its similar to eBay with the offered price referring to what the seller is offering to sell for.
That's the best solution I can think of.
your a faggot
In other words, if you trade in your shiny copy of FF13 to a game store, expect to get only $15 back.
I sold my FF13 for a slightly better offer of $35 bucks recently.
Why didn't this come up earlier? Could have profited instead of burning a hole :(
On the other hand
Step 1. Buy from Geo's
Step 2. Sell $$$
Too bad I'm already in the negative currently.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: PROFIT!
1. Buy many copies at $15
2. Go back to States and sell to weeaboos at original price
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
5. PROFIT MORE
6. Give one to Ichiro
7. ????
8. Ichiro becomes Happy Nagi
9. Ichiro sends his copy to Kortaku (including shipping costs).
10. Kortaku dances in joy
11. ????
12. Ichiro receives massive christmas doujinshi pile year later.
IT'S LIKE NO ONE CAN BUY ONLINE FROM YAHOO AUCTIONS WITH A PROXY BIDDER
What?? No.. they're not selling at $15, they're buying at $15. They sell back to you for more. So THEY make the ??? PROFIT; nothin you can do about it.
Was to be expected! ^^
The drop in price or the fall of FF series? Or both?
Either way, i'm giving up on this trend. From the high expectations on previous posts to fall this low... really the Final, finally.
I would sooooo pick myself up a copy for $15 ><"... just to see how it turns out. If I'm not satisfied with it, I can always sell it for $10 XD
Still too high.
all this wait for this. clearly a scam
i'd say it's fair enough. i honestly figured this would happen. just not much re-play value imo.
I'm not especially surprised. The game has little replay value and so a lot of the people who bought a copy are finished by now. Given the fact that it'd sold nearly 1.7 million copies before the end of 2009, you've nearly 1.7 million gamers in Japan looking at a copy of a game they're probably never going to play again.
The price is the store saying "Don't sell us your copy. We don't want it." Gamestop does the exact same thing if they find that certain titles are being sold back to them too frequently.
It'd be interesting to see what the store is selling used copies for.
When the majority of the used copies get snatched up by gamers who haven't yet played it, the trade-in price will go back up until the inevitable release of FFXIII Perfect Edition for Japan Only drops.
Will there ever be a positive FF13 topic on Sankaku?
Or will they continue to use Chinese reviews and complain about it being linear in different ways over and over again?
http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/2010/01/16/final-fantasy-xiii-voted-2nd-best-game-of-2009.html
http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/Final_Fantasy_XIII/index.html
Sankaku is not a news site. It is a site run by a person with his own opinions and beliefs. If you want a site where you can self-gratify the FF fanboy in you, go create your own.
sankaku is a site with a high population of people who have little to no individuality; thus it is only natural to hate what the majority of people hate, having little to no experience of the actual event or activity in question.
Or perhaps because we dislike Final Fantasy XIII because it's as linear as a piece of string. Sometimes a spade's a spade. I'll admit I've had fun playing around with the battle system, but there is quite literally no exploration to the game.
Either you're advancing along the game path or I'm grinding along a section of the path. There's no diversions, no break in the monotony of "Walk forward, enter combat, walk forward, enter combat, walk forward, enter combat, save, buy items and maybe upgrade some equipment, boss fight, repeat".
I watched my roommate play her imported copy and it was literally just that repetition.
Riiiiight, because those of us who are actually willing to call a bad game garbage are the sheep, not the myriad of fanboys who flat out deny any negative parts of the game when they're clearly present and frequent :1
FF fanboys are as bad, if not worse than narutards.
Could be worse 19:12, Zeldaphiles!
no, what's riiiiight is the fact that none of you actually know what you're calling out.
few ppl deny the "negative parts" of the game, its just that people who have ACTUALLY PLAYED IT know they're not that negative.
the high negatively by in large comes from
a) importers that don't actually understand what they imported
b) ppl that played 5-10 hours and felt they had enough to judge
c) ppl who have played squat as are in fact just sheep repeating what they've read online because they feel thats equal to "knowing the game"
18:38 =
then you have not played even halfway through the game
or you're just flat out lying about playing at all
either way its BS comments like this that flood sites like Sankaku and the sheep are the ones that eat it up as truth without knowing anything about whether its the truth or not.
@20:58
You mad? Sadly it's the truth. Deny it all you want.
@20:58
You are the very definition of a fanboy.
To you, such a great title like FF13 cannot possibly have any fault. If it has any, they are so inconsequential that no one should even consider mentioning it.
Go follow the next fanboy lemming off the cliff.
I do agree that game gets a little old with the same old thing. I guess the Japanese want something that is diffrent then then the last game.
@20:58
You imply that playing a game for 5-10 hours is not enough to judge.
If a game isn't worth playing for the first 10 hours, it isn't worth playing period.
It's a news site. Are you really stupid enough to think news sites are run by people without their "own opinions and beliefs"? The difference relates more to style of presentation than to content.
If it concerns anymore naked pics of the female characters then yes
Wow, Dragon Quest 9 voted as the best game of 2009. Hahahaha.
I guess y'all better rush out and start buying that best game of 2009!
Sankaku is simply using facts and giving possible explanations for them, these sites you link both clearly use a single persons opinion, both of which differ from the norm. If I made a site and said I thought Deadly Creatures was the best game ever and someone quoted my site does not make it true. Giving positive opinions when most opinions and facts are negative does not make something good; if you like it good for you, I like Deadly Creatures, but I know that the sales where poor and the reviews mediocre, and that personally liking a game does not mean it's necessarily a good game. Opinions are not useful, and though Arte clearly has an opinion, his opinion is both sculpted by facts, and only given as a possible explanation of facts, or the vast majority of people's views.
Also, how is it's low price second hand saying it's linear? It doesn't, being linear is simply an explanation as to why the price is so low.
Will FFXIII fanboys ever stop being proud blind sheep?
I mean really the game fking sucks. It has nothing to offer. Your basically playing Africa at this point. I'll take a fking FFVII remake FFVII fanboys been creaming themselves over for the past 5 years over this shit. For the simple fact that not only will FFVII will end up looking just a pretty as FFXIII, which at least has fking content.
Though I guess making it multiplatform and available on the xbox 360 suddenly increased the amount of retards the FF franchise has under it's belt.
will blind parrots like you stop posing as if you actually know anything?
you clearly haven't played the game if you think it has nothing to offer or is anything like Afrika.
you're just another parrot that reads forums then wants to act like he has a clue.
and those that actually DO have a clue CAN spot you're clueless a mile away.
you're not fooling anyone except the other parrot sheep.
though i guess thats all people like you are really aiming for. the appearance of being in the know.
Though FFXIII is nothing like Afrika, it has very little to offer more than the visuals, it was entertaining at first, and the battle system is interesting, but it gets tedious. I honestly prefer Afrika, but I'm not saying FFXIII is an entirely bad game, simply one which does not keep me or most people interested enough to give it any more of a chance than we would any other game on the market. If it had good motivation I may just have gotten to the magical half way point in which apparently the games stops being so abysmal (or at least as most fan-boys say), but if I don't enjoy the game I'm not willing to put myself through it to get to a point where I do, that's what having a girlfriend is for.
@21:06 I have played the game. Like I'm telling you...it doesn't offer much besides pretty visuals. The content is thus far the worst the franchise has to offer. The visuals is the best it has to offer. Maybe you should stop being such a blind fanboy or stop thinking that everyone hates this game blindly. Oh well proud blind sheep will always be blind and proud. Here's hoping to the franchise ending up like shit so maybe you fking snap out of it.
@21:33 So much hating! It is like the FF series killed your parents in front of you while pissing in your mouth. There will always be an audience for any particular game. Sometimes a good/mediocre story is enough to keep one person playing a game. Hell, Heavy Rain is coming out the end of this month and that looks like one giant QTE... a very sexy looking QTE.
@22:17 Sounds like the person you're quoting killed YOUR parents in front of you while pissing on your mouth and then shitting on your face as you passed out.
So how does it like to be a blind sheep of shit? You obviously defend this game more than you do your own intelligence.
"I watched my roommate play her imported copy and it was literally just that repetition."
You just describe what it feels like watching every jrpg ever.
Aleast, FF fans can say one thing or another. Artefact post may not be news worthy to you.Aleast to me, I get a laugh out of this you may not like it or you do It won't stop Artefact from posting it.
Final Fantasy series sure was good. Its time Square Enix gets a new Franchise that would help them make money of course.
So, you want SanCon to be like every other damn websites and praise FFXIII? What the fuck is the point, then? Doesn't this site exist to relay what goes on in Japan?
FFXIII is a big branded Japanese game so it's natural for this topic to be "hot" and of interest. If you actually looked around, we have many other "negative" topics on other games such as Bayonetta PS3 port, shady Namco businesses, etc. Notice how the website updates and follows up on previous articles. It just so happens that FFXIII is gaining a lot of negativity and shit keeps on happening. Don't take it so damn personally.
Hey I'll try it out if it's for free and not 100 dollars.
SanCon doesn't like chinese sources, but it seems most reviewers were paid...
That is a giant "OUCH" for the FF industry and it says it all, no replay value. I have FF10 FF10x2 FF12. Might buy FF13 used if its up for 15 bucks at gamespot lol but not new.
Why is it that JP games retail for such a higher price than the US versions?
Probably has to do with the volumes being sold in different regions. Less copies sold, higher markup, vice versa.
unlike the US which standardized MSRP, Japan weighs MSRP against the supposed production costs of the title.
thus big pricey to produce titles get a big pricey retail cost.