Best place to purchase imported games from

[mariska]

What's the best site (cheapest and reliable) to purchase imported games from? Specifically, I'm looking to import Yakuza of the End right now and possibly a few other games in the future. The only site I really know about is play-asia. That or ebay. Are there any others out there? Play-Asia is so damned expensive.

 

[Shangralia2005]

[quote name='mariska']What's the best site (cheapest and reliable) to purchase imported games from? Specifically, I'm looking to import Yakuza of the End right now and possibly a few other games in the future. The only site I really know about is play-asia. That or ebay. Are there any others out there? Play-Asia is so damned expensive.[/QUOTE]


You could try estarland.com. I have had luck a few times for imports at decent prices.

 

[NJMane]

I have had luck with shopto.net. Good company and fast shipping.

 

[dv8mad]

I don't know what the other places are offering, but I'm sure going through my site would be cheaper than going through Play-Asia in this case.

 

[bjaigorgor]

there are reliable sites for stores within the US that sells imported games. However, I don't think they will be cheaper than play-asia.

http://www.ncsx.com/
http://www.japanvideogames.com/Default.asp

 

[mietha]

I can attest to using both play-asia and estarland with no problems.

 

[blackdog60]

you might try dv8cag.com http://dv8cag.com/
or contact dv8mad here on cag
he is reliable and inexpensive.

 

[phenommsu]

I have used play asia and renchi.com w/o problems. But the important question is are there any good games to import? I haven't done it in a while because it hasn't been worth it. Now back in the gamecube day I used to import all the time lol. Any good Xbox 360 imports?

 

[phenommsu]

plus cross compatibility is so limited with consoles these days.

 

[Halo05]

I've been using NCSX and Playasia for years. Both are great. Prices are a bit higher at NCSX but shipping is cheaper so it's mostly a draw. Plus they're really cool people. I haven't really had any interactions with the Playasia people.

EDIT - Although Phenommsu is right, it isn't like the heyday of the Saturn/Dreamcast/PS2 when there was good/new stuff to import on a monthly if not weekly basis. It sucks that we finally get a couple mainstream consoles with limited or no regional lockout and all of the sudden, there's nothing worth importing. I think the extent of my purchases from both places the past 4 years have been Japanese PSN cards, various controllers, and a few PSP games from Europe or Asia.