Back when Square Enix announced the limited edition Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII bundle in Japan, it seemed nifty, but it also seemed like a steep price at around $250 last year. Little did I know how good Crisis Core was going to be. The Japanese system was limited to 77,777 copies (Tetsuya Nomura himself said in an interview that he wasn’t able to buy one) and showed off a special Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary logo.
Now that I (and if prices are any indication, many others) have played and beaten and loved the American version, I’ve been uncontrollably coveting this limited edition. Prices have spiked to over $600 on eBay for the Japanese system, meaning that I really couldn’t justify buying one.
Sony Europe to the rescue! Just 2 days ago, Sony Europe announced that this hot item will be seeing a European release in just a few short days on June 20, showing that Europe doesn’t always get the short end of the release stick.
The MSRP is 189 Euros, or about $289 US. The problem is, many of the big European online retailers (Amazon France and Germany included) will not ship outside of the system’s intended region.
Long-established import shop NSCX just emailed me today to say that they have put the Crisis Core bundle on pre-order at $329, a bargain compared to some of the recent eBay prices for the Japanese system. Needless to say, I just put in my order for mine. They’ve also been very friendly in answering my email questions, so thanks guys!
If anyone finds another place where this can be ordered and shipped to the US, leave it in the comments.
