[quote name='arcane93']Look, all I can tell you is that when I decided that I wanted it (around this time last year), it was nowhere to be found. Amazon didn't have it, other than third party sellers who were asking ridiculous prices (whether they were actually getting those prices is a different question, of course). GameStop didn't have it on their website, and there were no new copies in any local stores; there were a few used copies around, but they were all missing the case and/or the manual, and I don't buy my games incomplete (and if I remember correctly, they were charging around $30 for those incomplete used copies). When I found a mint condition used copy in another local game store (just went back in my email for the receipt, I bought it on 5/1/10), I jumped on it because I was afraid it was going nowhere but up. Then a few weeks later (probably in prep for the DQIX launch), it was suddenly everywhere again, which I assumed meant a reprint.
I couldn't tell you exactly how long it was unavailable -- I know that it wasn't terribly long; I had put it off a few months earlier when it was available because I'd been spending too much money on games, and I was pissed when I then suddenly couldn't get it anywhere. For all I know, it may have been readily available in other areas during that time (living in a large city area, things tend to sell out faster here than they do in some other areas). That was just my experience with it.[/QUOTE]
Around this time 2 years ago it was starting to get hard to find. That was when I got a new DS to replace my old one. I remember only 2 best buys having it, and one gamestop(gutted). I picked it up with my DS, and chrono trigger(which was $19.99).