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It's funny people complaining about the price. I remember when this originally came out for the Saturn and launch price was that of a typical game of the time ($50+ after tax). It was well worth it. Over time the price has inched up for a used copy. Even loose diss are over $27 in poor condition now (plus you need to own a Saturn to play it). the price on the eShop is a bargain.

@Dr_Lugae wow, I've never met such a diehard Square apologist before. Maybe you haven't noticed, but quare has left quite the stinky trail of doo doo for some time. They also don't have a sterling reputation for caring for fans, either. I would say that here the recipe for disaster was pretty much perfect from the get-go, all round.

I hate to ask, but might the performance issues be hardware-related? Meaning that they may not exist on other platforms?

@PikaPhantom this.

I live in Japan. Pokemon bread is a big thing here as well. It even comes with a sticker. Right now Yadon (Slowpoke) bread is really hard to get. My wife is a big Psyduck fan and buys bread every week trying to get a Psyduck sticker. It's been a year and still no dice. BTW the bread tastes like stale dinner rolls. Even the chocolate.

I'm going to start ending all my sentenses with "because I'm cool like that" becuase I'm cool like that.

The company that makes these just tweeted:

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The craftsmen are working hard to make it, so we will let you know when it is ready for delivery.
We hope you will look forward to it.

Reservations for this thing sold out within minutes of it being announced. I live in Japan and my wife (who is Japanese) is a HUGE Koduck (Psyduck) fan and is part of a thriving online Koduck fan community. Nobody got one. It doesn't help that they are all hand-made, so you can kind of look at it as a mass-produced custom piece. Still, it's frusterating that it still continues to be advertised over here with no way to reserve one.

@sanderev I think it may be more social media. There are a lot more people actively involved in social justice issues and companies are not wanting to end up on the "wrong side" of an issue lest the pole the hornet's nest.

Funny, I don't remember them being so sensitive to the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Or the crisis in Darfur. They kind of leaned into the pandemic. What's so special about THIS humanitarian conflict?

Those "fake" Rockman games have been around in Japan forever. And it's not a "fake" so much an an unofficial release as Rockman was never released on the PC Engine.

Reading the comments and having played Animal Crossing since GameCube, I'm kind of glad I stopped playing. It really isn't Animal Crossing any more, even though the name is the same. It's really more Miitopia with Animal Crossing characters.

@HarvieQuinn you mean for the Japanese Pochama?

Dreamcast 2 confirmed.

$40 is a bit... aggressive.

You forgot to mention that in order to get the DLC code you have to physically go into a Pokemon Center, find a staff member, and say to them "Pochama daisuki!" (I love Piplup). I am in Japan, my wife likes Pocha a lot, and is very embarrassed to have to do this.

Well, we all know how well versed Sega was at making good decisions :/

The games were also in demand. I remember Shadows of the Empire selling out at launch. I had to drive all over town, and my friend and I finally found 2 copies at a Toys R Us in some armpit of Minneapolis.

I have never understood Japan's obsession with Casio G-Shock watches.

@BenAV so you might say that you have an A-version.

I'll show myself the door.

That's why I have the PS5 version.

Nintendo really has given in to the crowd who can't wait for anything, haven't they.

I am seriously tired of the scalping. Systems, games, controllers. How do we end this?

Lenovo once accidentally sent me a desktop computer.

Been playing since Gen 1. I have never, ever caught a shiny Pokemon. Truth.

The only sad this is, what it is now it will always be. No updates, nothing added. Just done and done.

@Paulo It's Japan / Asia only for physical, but you can order it off Amazon Japan. Play Asia is a reseller who buys the games at retail and marks them up to sell to people who don't realize Amazon Japan has an English language option.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I hate to tell you, but Ninten-do. Just not outside of Japan / Asia. Amazon Japan is your friend, and they don't jack the prices up like a reseller (Play Asia). You can get it at retail AND take advantage of a weak yen rate.

It's a punishment. Sega was popular in the west, but not really in Japan. We are still being punished for supporting the enemy.

As a Panorama Cotton owner, I couldn't be more thrilled! Now all we need is Rainbow Cotton fron the Dreamcast and that should just about be all of them! Shame they have to milk individual releases and couldn't have just given us one big Cotton Collection. Still, we're living in a magical time for retro gaming.

This is odd because where I live in Japan unofficial game guides are a very real thing. Even hand-drawn guides like this with no licensing what-so-ever have a long history in Japan.

Nintendo's a little late to their own party on this one.

At 45, I needn't worry about explaining much to my parents except how a remote works.

Insert Sakurai meme here.

Yes, but does it hold the upcoming OLED model?

Where they taken away because they tried to comment on your Not Tonight 2 article?

as someone who has lived in Japan the last 11 years, I can say without a doubt that foreign interest in Japanese retro games has not only caused prices to increase to insane levels for certain games, but it has made retro much harder to find overall. Stores like Super Potato and Surugaya and various ebay sellers buy up as much cheap stock as they can, then jack the prices up selling them to non-Japanese gamers. When I came here, you couldn't give away a PC Engine for $20 (boxed!) But now they're $1000l+ loose with mix and match parts. Nobody cared about Super Metroid, it was a $7 game at most. Now it's $45 - $65, and it's not Japanese gamers who are buying this, it's foreigners. Eventually there will be more Japanese retro outside of Japan than there is inside it.

I don't take this so much as him taking responsibility, more of "we had to step in and help Dispatch Games get their act together on this."

I will say that I don't believe that the major game studios want consumers to own physical copies of games. They wield ultimate control with digital media, case in point digital patches that force changes and revisions into code, and the the ultimate extreme PT of PS4 as an example.

I think that unless something like Mario or Zelda gets ported to it, it won't really be a problem.

Total hype! I'm so blowy blow that I might shimmer!

@Dogorilla actually the word usage of "socialistic" is a loaded, progressive use of the word. "Cooperative" or "Collaborative" would have been just as illustrative without carrying any social-political inference. It does speak to the mindset of the writer.

It's funny how items sold by big name auction companies go for so much more than when a "normal" person sells them. Games, coins, comics, cards... it doesn't matter what. It's almost like they have a system to insure that the items they sell go for a premium. Hum...

@carlos82 well it does cost more to make games utilizing cutting edge technology as opposed to games using cell phone tech from 2012.

@Dezzy part of the reason is that the MHS series is aimed at kids in Japan. I live in Japan, so all I see is the Japanese marketing but I'm going to guess in the west they're acting like it's a normal RPG? Here it's a kid's RPG complete with kid's anime and merch.

I live in Japan and it bugs me to no end that Campcom decided to call the monsters "monsties" in the west as a lame attempt to cuteify them. They're called monsters in the original Japanese. Not everything has to be sanitized for the west.

@mercilessrobot that was my question, too. So he spent $1.6 million? Where the heck did he get $1.6 million dollars???

Yes, but wake me up when it's Raiden II.

I've hated everything MercurySteam's touched. I kind of feel like Metroid peaked at Super Metroid and it's been downhill since.
As a big Metroid fan, I find the footage they showed of Dread to be troubling.

@Meehanuk hey, what's with this homie dissing my girl?