Quote Originally Posted by Press_Start View Post
You're going to regret it. Xenoblade Chronicles already selling on Ebay for $60 or $70 after NA numbers destroyed sales in Europe and Japan and that's just being a Gamestop exclusive alone. Last Story was and still is XSEED's best selling release to date that they've already published a second print run and I bet a big reason pushing them into localizing Pandora too. My buddy at Gamestop already beat himself up for trading in his sealed TSL copy, now has to drive 12 extra miles to the nearest one as all the local Gamestops have sold out.

The niche market is small but reliably solid and with a powerful voice....our money. So far, both games here have surpassed Europe's and have equal/overtaken Japan's, I'm definitely sure we'll do it again with Pandora's Tower as the Wii does live on in the WiiU and all XSEED has to do to remind people it's "Wii U compatible".
I don't follow your argument here. If these games are selling so many copies, why do you think they're going to be so hard to find and expensive later on? I don't know about Xenoblade since, as far as I know, it's only gotten a single print run and they may have underestimated the demand and went with a fairly limited run, but still, if game collecting history has taught us anything, it's that the more common a game is, the cheaper it'll be (outside of lunacy like with FFVII). They may not be cheap now, but I'm not so sure that they won't be once the initial hype has passed. I would be more inclined to think that Xenoblade and Last Story would end up valuable if the sales were poor. Then it would just be a matter of the acclaim snowballing over the years and people fighting over the limited number of copies, like with Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile. Granted, I don't expect games like Xenoblade and Last Story to see heavy markdowns, and being well-loved RPGs, they'll probably never be dirt cheap. But down the road I wouldn't be surprised if they could be had for around $20.