Well... LRG could end up charging the same $40 + shipping just like Skullgirls 2nd Encore.
Probably still going to be 39.99 with $5.25 shipping. Vita Visual Novels generally go for 39.99 anyway.
Yeah, I think it should be anticipated that, not only
Sharin no Kuni, any of the impending Japanese Visual Novel releases coming to the Vita from
LRG will likely be priced at $39.99. The prices are set pending the financial obligations and terms set by the developers with whom LRG partners with. They have already established that $24.99 is the base pricing on their Vita releases, for which we have seen many released so far at this price, but have also seen a couple to date released at $29.99, and the Skull Girls 2 game pre-order sales only at $39.99. I have not heard or read anything from LRG officially concerning a top-end price limit on any releases they may do, and highly suspect we will never see them ever declare such. While I'm certain they, LRG staff, would prefer to keep their releases at a reasonable price point to attract as many potential sales as possible, the reality of the situation is that games such as these being initially offered as crowd funding projects are likely to not receive a general public LRG offering for less than what the lowest price point a physical copy was being made available to the people pledging money through the crowd funding offering.
Really, if you think about this, it wouldn't go over well with the people who pledged/gave money months, or even years, in advance of the product offering if after their physical copy was sent to them, a significantly cheaper copy of the same game was made publicly available. However, there are ways to negate buyers' remorse of those who crowd funded to begin with. In the case of
Sharin no Kuni, we have been told that the game KS backers will receive will have a exclusive cover art variant, and likewise the "special" (aka collector's) box will be exclusive for those who pledged for a tier in which it was included. To me, this further indicates that whenever the public LRG offering for
Sharin no Kuni on Vita goes up that it will likely be just a standard release of the game in alternate cover art, no art book, no soundtrack CD. Well, maybe they will offer the soundtrack CD as a separate purchase as many of the LRG releases have already done, but only time shall tell.
Another set of crowd funding appeaser examples can be found with
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. KS Backers of it have been promised a KS backer exclusive slipcover for their copies. But it doesn't end with that, the KS Backer copies of the game will, allegedly, have a exclusive end-game boss. No I'm not personally counting on them to produce two game cartridge variants (KS Backer and Retail) of Bloodstained, although that would be awesome. I think it more likely that KS Backers will receive a DLC redemption code to add the "exclusive" boss to the game as a downloadable add-on. But I would be very happily proven wrong if they do end up producing an alternate game cart for those of us who crowd-funded the game with the special boss already on it.
