Well hey, would you rather have Final Fantasy for $15 or a shitty billiards game for $15? (yeah the price went down for Bankshot Billiards but still)

@JeffPaine: Oh, what a great point.
And a low blow too.

Didn't know it was going to be a wiiware tital, though it was a full game. Hmm.

that seems like a fair price. its better than 5000yen for the Dragon Quest DS reissues. I guess it depends how extensive of a game it is.

15 dollars that`ll leave 500 points for a nes game hmm

@skullpanda: There was another Crystal Chronicles game for the Wii in development that looked sweet. Don't know what happened to it, though.

As for this, this better be a damn good game. Then again, it looks cute enough and it'll probably ALMOST beat the Pokemon Ranch game. The fans will buy these games up like candy.

@skullpanda: I think a full title is coming too.

At least it's an original game and not some old VC game wich costs almost the same price.

I think it's a bigger game than most people realize. It looks like a big city-managment style game.
Kinda similar to King's story, although it looks like it's more behind the scenes type stuff in this game, rather than directly interacting with people like in King's Story.

Can't afford that.

Maybe I'll rent to own for a year at $3 per month...that's the ticket.

I think I'd rather just stick with the Disc Games and the VC games.

It better be better then sex, whatever that feels like.

$15 is fine by me. Luckilly, Brawl comes out soon and I'll finally have a reason to connect my Wii to the network.

But you'll need $20 to get the amount of points it costs. Love it.

About what I expected. I'd heard it was going to be more sizable, and therefore more expensive, then the barely money-worthy bubble-popping shit going up next to it.

15 dollars for a Wiiware game?

In other news, SquareEnix will mail out a free arm and a leg to everyone who purchases this title.

But seriously, 15 bucks is around 5/10 bucks too much for a game that I can't have a hard-copy of.

For the lag?

I wasn't aware that $15 was a lot of money.

It has five chapters. It's managament. No combat it all happens in computer generated reports. It looks fairly big from a gameplay aspect.

$15 for a full game? IF it's a full game it's not that bad.

How big is the game? Must be packing something to spend THAT much. I'll wait for the FF Spinoff sequel rather than a Spinoff of a spinoff.

20 bucks is already a budget title. Taking into account that most downloadable games cost $10, this is 5 bucks bigger than a downloadable short and fun game. And the completely opposite way we want to go with Wiiware/PSN/XBLA, considering that if we start raising prices, we might as well make the small downloadable games buyable in stores.

1500 isn't bad for Square. I was expecting 4000. They usually charge $40.00 + for anything with their company's name on it, let alone an FF title.

Good enough for me, then ill buy me a cheap nes game with the leftovers :)

15 bucks isn't that much. I wouldn't really expect THAT much from it.

I think I'll wait for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Blegh long!) But that full game looked very promising.

@Funnydale: Digital distribution is the way of the future.

Given that N64 games are 1000 Wii Points on average, $15 for a brand new downloadable game doesn't seem that bad. This Crystal Chronicles game also keeps looking better every time I see new footage of it.

I read it was something like 10 hours in an interview.

That's more than I get from some full price DS games.

$15 is expensive?

What the hell is wrong with you people?

I know that the Wii is the cheapest console this generation, but I think $5 more than a 10 year old N64 title is well worth it for a brand new current gen game.

Huh, actually cheaper than I expected. :)

$15 is not too much, considering this game appears to have some meat to it.

A game without meat costing this much would be unacceptable, so we'll just have to wait and see.

I remember this being in an old trailer, but it was in Japanese. I guess it was possible for it to be cheaper here, but not likely.

$15 bucks seems reasonable.
hell diner dash DS game costs $20.

besides if the game is good who cares about cost?

15 dollars is nothing. NOTHING I tell you. Fuckin' A, there are tons of games that come out for 60 bucks that are totally and completely worthless.

I love New games this week comes out and people say I'm buying sometimes 3+ games. Yet somehow 15 dollars is expensive.

It's only $3 more than Sin and Punishment.

Now I'm not big on those U.S. prices these days, but don't quite a few games on Xbox Live Arcade cost that much?
Same for quite a few MSN, Popcap, and Yahoo games.

Patapon was $20 USD last time I checked, is that a lot of money to? As compared to something like Crush being $30 USD?

As long as it's a full or decent sized title worth 15 hours at least, it sounds like a good deal to me.

Yeah, are you guys being sarcastic? This seems very reasonable for a Final Fantasy. I mean, granted it's not going to be a full-fledged FF, and seeing as they don't have to produce discs they could have offered it for a lot less, but I don't see anything wrong with the pricing - and I'm the stingy type who only buys maybe around 5 games a year. Granted, I only own a Wii and therefore am not comparing it to the pricing of other console's online content, but still from my point of view it seems fair.

I'm planning to get this game. $15 is cheaper than I expected. It looks like an A... maybe a B title, in any case.

Lets forget about the price for a moment.

What kind of space will a 3D game with relatively high-res textures and enough content to justify its namesake take up?
Will I have to delete most of my VC titles to make room?

I've made shot work of the measly 512MB available a long while ago and I hate having to delete stuff and the copy back whenever I feel like playing it again.

If nothing else Nintendo should sort out this problem soon or come WiiWare I won't be wasting a single point on these titles.

The 1500 points price was on the website since they announced the game many months ago.

@Alcochetano: Seconded.

I'm more concerned about how that thing's going to fit on my Wii.

We are spoiled on prices I think that is a good price. Really live arcade has done that to us people seem to forget that most of the pop cap type games were 20 bucks on the PC and not really a bad price when you consider the ammount of gameplay they offer. There are awesome independent games like Aquaria on the PC that is 30 bucks and is a fair price at that.

@LuppyLuptonium: You're assuming that $10 is a good price for a digital copy of an N64 game. Personally I don't think it is a good price. I'm sure they'll do just fine w/this though. The devoted FF fans will pay whatever Squenix charges.

Thats about what I figured it would cost. Looking forward to it.

Graphics look surprisingly good. How does this work with the ridiculously small harddrive filled with dozens of VC games that is already nearly filled? Couple N64 games will fill the SD card as it is. That looks like it's going to way in the 100MB+ range easily.

This game is set to be ~40MB, just FYI.

$10 for N64 is okay. Yes, we know you can find some games for a few bucks at the local swapmeet. It's still not the case for everyone though, plus, you never know what you'll find, and sometimes it may cost more to find a given game somewhere.

$15 isn't a bad price for this title. As long as there's some replayability, it'll be perfect.

I actually went to the GDC session about the development of this game. Turns out a rather young (but experienced) programmer at SquareEnix drafted up a few proposals for WiiWare titles when Nintendo made their big announcement about WiiWare and this is the one that his Boss OK'd for development. Originally he estimated 6 months and 12 people to make the game, but it ended up being a little bit bigger of a project than that (12+ months and 20+ people). Funny thing is, that for the AAA titles that Square normally makes, they have well over 200+ people working on it (and god only knows how long *cough*FFXIII*cough*).

Despite the small team, what was shown at the session seemed rather robust. As Yetanotheruninspiredscreename said earlier, they removed all the battle elements from the game, and instead it is very much of a City/Kingdom management game in which you are trying to destroy the creature threats in the countryside and also develop the town to keep your Heroes and Citizens happy.

If anything, I was expecting them to charge more than $15 for a game like this. Granted it is a downloadable game so there is less distribution costs, but $15 is far cheaper than any DS game you can find in retail stores and probably has just as much content, if not more.

I don't remember from the session what the game size is going to be though, and if I remember correctly, someone asked the guy what the maximum size allowed by Nintendo was and he had to give the standard "Nintendo hasn't finalized that yet" legal mumbo-jumbo.

Overall, it was a great session and the game does look good. Oh crap, I sound like a shill for Square now though... oh well, I just love the idea of easy to make online distributed games for the Wii.

So what is this anyway? Final Fantasy sim city or some other corny thing?

It's 15 bucks, if that's too much money for you, get a better job. Jesus. Some of you spend more then 15 a week on fast food and Mt.Dew or on watered down drinks at a club trying to bed girls or suck up to bartenders.

You seem to forget that Square Enix are also the ones charging $40 for DS games...

I agree with anyone who said this price is reasonable.

If you go to a two hour movie and buy a small popcorn and small soda, you'll spend more than $15. The big difference is you can only watch that movie once and you have to do that in one sitting.

Shit, after spending $70 on UTIII and getting ten hours of gameplay out of it (because I found it to be sooooo boring), I'll spend $15 on any game and smile.