FFXIII Flies off the Digital Shelves

[moogling]

Following on from Japanese gamers causing Amazon Japan to sell out of copies of Final Fantasy XIII before launch, Importing gamers are now pushing stock to the absolute limit.

An employee of top import store Play Asia told us the extent of the demand.

"We expected FF13 to be big, but in the last few days before launch we have seen a surge of orders from overseas, with lots of games being despatched to the US."

It's not all bad yet, though, with the source telling us that the company has tracked down a little more stock. "We obtained extra stock and we have shipped more copies of the game than I'd care to count already. We'll be shipping these all day!"

He went on to note that this is one of the biggest games for import orders he has ever seen. Many fans are ordering FF13 with no knowledge of the Japanese language as fans and fansites across the web are offering up entire sections translating the menus and cutscenes of the game to help those who don't speak the language play it - including us at UFFSite!

You can still grab some of the remaining copies of FF13 over at Play Asia. You can pick up the Japanese or Asian region copies of the game - either will work on all PS3s - and if you order now, it'll probably ship today.

Source: uffsite

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I was half expecting this to say it's now on PSN Which, I wouldn't admire people for since it's around 37.8GB, or at least that's what I can make from A9VG D:

I can see the hype and why people are buying imports but I personally don't see the point, even with the translations it's going to be such a faff on and the overall impact of the game will be lost. I'd rather wait 'til March tbh >.>

 

[Rey]

Yeah Im with Ryan on this one. I would rather understand what they are saying instead of just translations. BUT the Japanese one has 2 beautiful songs Kimi Ga iru Kara and Eternal Love and they will not be in the en version. We get the "My Hands"

 

[Fusionist]

I'm sure there are people over seas who themselves can understand the language, but I just can't bother myself to buy a game where I'd be running around blindly 'cause I don't understand it myself. Even with translated guides and what not, it's not something I could do :/

Imma just wait - Although I'd love Square-Enix forever if they included the Japanese audio with English subs in the March release xD