Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
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.
Eh, I think you misunderstand. I was stating that Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story, as niche-RPGs on a not-on-the-surface-known-for-niche-RPG-but-really-is-niche-RPG-friendly Wii, are selling so prominently well in the US market that Pandora's Tower will not "bomb" and in fact, I wanted to say you will not very easily find a dozen copies mixed in with the other Wii party schluck in the $5 bargain pit at your local Best Buy/Target/Walmart as Tanooki predicted would be.