And yeah it's lame as heck the people buying rarer japanese games and stuff to sell online for 3x price or more.
I buy games in Japan for certain reasons.
1. Limited Edition is Japanese only OR they got a cooler Limited Edition then the West
2. Japanese version of a game that was digital only in West.
3. Game only released in Japan.
4. Western game that's cheaper then buying it back in Australia with added bonus usually of having Japanese dub and sub (alongside english). I've gotten games for half price and under compared to Australia version.
5. A game / franchise I love and want to collect cheap older copies of em for collection purposes (I have older Yakuza and Trails games from Japan cheap yay)
The thing about this is that sometimes older and newer games just sit there being ignored.
I went to Japan Sept 2023 and I had found some specific games I wanted limited edition of (Japanese only limited edition, regular or digital in West only) were in stock at specific places.
I checked about a month before the trip and then when I went, I found those on my list still there. Meaning no one was interested in them during that time period.
The same could also go for some retro games too. Sometimes they just sit there for ages and it takes a non local to buy it, since no one locally wants it.
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How could second week be found?
Random 2nd hand retro game stores in Japan?
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What could have games looked like on PS1 and N64 if somehow they had 4x the ram available to them?
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Ey you! Get off of my cloud!
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Amazing timing cause I'm literally making a video about Nihon Falcom / Trails and I even touch upon this game lmao.
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I got to visit the Tokyo one last September. Next time I will visit all 3!
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Re: "The Tourists Have Taken Everything" Laments Japanese Resident As Retro Runs Dry
And yeah it's lame as heck the people buying rarer japanese games and stuff to sell online for 3x price or more.
I buy games in Japan for certain reasons.
1. Limited Edition is Japanese only OR they got a cooler Limited Edition then the West
2. Japanese version of a game that was digital only in West.
3. Game only released in Japan.
4. Western game that's cheaper then buying it back in Australia with added bonus usually of having Japanese dub and sub (alongside english). I've gotten games for half price and under compared to Australia version.
5. A game / franchise I love and want to collect cheap older copies of em for collection purposes (I have older Yakuza and Trails games from Japan cheap yay)
Re: "The Tourists Have Taken Everything" Laments Japanese Resident As Retro Runs Dry
The thing about this is that sometimes older and newer games just sit there being ignored.
I went to Japan Sept 2023 and I had found some specific games I wanted limited edition of (Japanese only limited edition, regular or digital in West only) were in stock at specific places.
I checked about a month before the trip and then when I went, I found those on my list still there. Meaning no one was interested in them during that time period.
The same could also go for some retro games too. Sometimes they just sit there for ages and it takes a non local to buy it, since no one locally wants it.