KOF XII Gets Pricing Beatdown From Japanese Retailer

The bad news for SNK Playmore is that retailer response to The King of Fighters XII, at least at one major Japanese retailer, is that they’d like to be rid of it altogether, marking the fighting game down to about $12.

The good news is that Bic Camera, the outlet responsible for dropping KOF XII to ¥980 (about $12) — down from its launch price of ¥7140 (about $88) — appears to have sold out of the 2D fighting game. But with the game on store shelves a little over three months, an 86 per cent mark down on the King of Fighters revival must be hard to swallow.

It’s not that uncommon for Japanese retailers to issue steep price drops for older games — we saw plenty of new copies of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the same price in Tokyo this year — but SNK Playmore is probably not pleased.

The game didn’t review that well in North America, nor did it debut strongly on the Japanese game sales charts. Maybe SNK Playmore will have better luck with King of Fighters: Sky Stage. At least that game has the fan service friendly Mai Shiranui.

The King of Fighters XII Gets Pricing “Re-Birth” [Siliconera]