With the long wait for its English & French releases and lack of marketing it was expected there wouldn't be a ton of copies for Final Fantasy Explorers on Nintendo 3DS. However, the number appears to have been even smaller than expected.

 

In Australia, it was sold out in mere days and a couple of weeks later it doesn't look like any more stock is coming. JB Hi-Fi, Australia's most popular retailer of consumer electronics removed their page for the game and it doesn't look like it'll return. EB Games has had no stock online since launch and when you ask them about it they have no information on the subject. The lowest price for a copy of the game in Australia or the UK on eBay is $80 Australia. $80. That's higher than the RRP. Stock on UK/European websites does not appear to be that great now either.

 

I have contacted Square Enix Europe's Japan Studios Community Manager and Australia's distributor of Square Enix products to see if any more stock is on the way but it appears unlikely.

Edited February 16, 20169 yr by Sora96

Seems to be a problem within that region only. Bit strange how they're handling the distribution of a great game out there. I mean, we all have different localization teams, but they should be working on distributing units. Is it not as big of a hit in Europe and Australia?

Seriously? Why? I mean, I understand if they were copies of an OLDER game, one from like 5 or 10 years ago, at that point there would be little profit to make from all the materials processing on such a large scale as opposed to the initial 2 years of release, but they're just going to stop making NOW? Now everybody is going to be more cutthroat towards each other than the last wave of Smash Amibos.

Seriously? Why? I mean, I understand if they were copies of an OLDER game, one from like 5 or 10 years ago, at that point there would be little profit to make from all the materials processing on such a large scale as opposed to the initial 2 years of release, but they're just going to stop making NOW? Now everybody is going to be more cutthroat towards each other than the last wave of Smash Amibos.

At least Nintendo finally fixed their amiibo problem. This sounds like they're not gonna do a single thing about this game.

Great news! More stock is on the way!

Yeah, I tried to pick up a copy the other day, but they were sold out. I ended up getting Bravely Default, as it was the closest thing to Final Fantasy Explorers.

Great news! More stock is on the way!

Great

Edited February 17, 20169 yr by MythrilMagician