PlatinumGames Pleads Japanese Customers To Pre-Order The Astral Chain Collector’s Edition

Today we have some very sad news about the Astral Chain Collector’s Edition in Japan.

During an official NicoNico livestream, PlatinumGames game designer Takahisa Taura plead viewers to pre-order the Astral Chain Collector’s Edition. The exact comments he made (translated by NintendoSoup) are as follows:

“As there’s still stock of the Astral Chain Collector’s Edition remaining, please, pre-order it.”

Taura’s comments were no surprise to Japanese gamers. Although Astral Chain is scheduled to launch later this week, pre-order sales for the Collector’s Edition are so lackluster that there’s still plenty of stock left at retailers across Japan, making it relatively easy to pre-order. We also previously reported a large quantity was produced in Japan. This is unlike the Fire Emblem: Three Houses Fodlan Collection in Japan, which sold out weeks before launch.

Japanese gamers said they wouldn’t buy the Collector’s Edition as the game is a brand new IP they are “not familiar with” and they wouldn’t pay almost 10,000 yen for its contents. Some even questioned why Nintendo and PlatinumGames even produced a Collector’s Edition for Astral Chain.

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