Famitsu: 1 year subscription (52 issues) $390 shipped at Amazon

That's a lot of money, but similar to what you might pay at a Japanese bookstore in the US, and it's delivered to your house.
 
That's NUTS.

Famitsu is 350 yen here in Japan, and, with the current exchange rate, that is roughly $3 an issue. :shock:

$3 x 52 issues does NOT equal $350.....
 
The last time I checked, you had to be IN JAPAN to buy it for that price. Foreign magazine subscriptions are always expensive.
 
[quote name='Gameboy415']That's NUTS.

Famitsu is 350 yen here in Japan, and, with the current exchange rate, that is roughly $3 an issue. :shock:

$3 x 52 issues does NOT equal $350.....[/quote]

Yeah, but how much do those issues weigh and how much would 52 of them cost to be shipped to the USA from Japan?
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Yeah, but how much do those issues weigh and how much would 52 of them cost to be shipped to the USA from Japan?[/QUOTE]

Especially 52 shipped seperately ;)
 
[quote name='thorbahn3']Oh Cheapy. I understand you need pizaid but you shouldn't put this on the front page. It's just so anti-CAG.[/quote]
Yeah, I know, but I thought it was kind of newsworthy too.
Plus, I was tired of looking at those dead Amazon DOTDs.

p.s.
I gots to get pizaid
 
Thanks CheapD, I've always wonder where I can get these magazine. Not that I will get it at this price, but glad to know it's available within touch.
 
I actually wasn't aware that the magzine was weekly. I thought it came out once a month, similar to gaming magazines over here.
 
Why would anyone want magazines anymore? I can understand poop reading material but you have to have one hell of a toilet (like, if it gave you an ass massage) to spend this much on poop reading material.
 
If the magazine came with a Japanese Girl in a School Girl or French Maid outfit to personally translate and read the article, etc., 52 times a year; it would be worth $350. Maybe even $355!
 
[quote name='PenguinMaster']Damn, $7.50 an issue! I never pay more than $0 for my magazine subscriptions.[/quote]That is a beautiful post.


I might be interested if I subscribed to any magazines. And if I could read japanese. And if I had $400 to spend on print information which I can find online. And if I wanted to cut down trees needlessly.

All in all, a great deal!
 
[quote name='Vinny']Why would anyone want magazines anymore? I can understand poop reading material but you have to have one hell of a toilet (like, if it gave you an ass massage) to spend this much on poop reading material.[/QUOTE]I never read magazines either, especially since all gaming magazines are a month late on their news a majority of the time, but Famitsu is where all the Japanese reviews come out of, and where a lot of US sites get news on games.

Depends on how fast the shipping would be if I were to actually order it.
 
any nakid girls?

The thumbnail on the front page would make me think there's at least a bit of cheesecake in Famitsu. Better than American game rags, where I have to look at the steroid-abusing cop from Crackdown.
 
wow, pretty expensive price for a magazine that I can't read. Anyway, game magazines are become irrelevant with so much gaming news over the internet these days.
 
[quote name='Vinny']Why would anyone want magazines anymore? I can understand poop reading material but you have to have one hell of a toilet (like, if it gave you an ass massage) to spend this much on poop reading material.[/quote]

:rofl: I know shouldn't laugh at that, but I had to.
 
Being on the front page implies someone at CAG has the scratch to pony up on a magazine they probably can't even read.

Which, should it come to pass, can only mean that camels through the eyes of needles is sure to follow.
 
Al Gore invented the Internets so we wouldn't have to pay outrageous subscription fees for our Japanese gaming info! This is madness!
 
I used to subscribe to Saturn Fan (a bi-weekly) from a Japanese bookstore in San Francisco back in the mid to late 90's for little over $300 yearly (call me crazy, but I was doing it for a website out of my own pocket. Famitsu usually costs $6-7 at this bookstore (which usually air mails their magazines in) so depending on the shipping method that they use, it is a good deal.

As far as magazines vs. the internet, I love great videogame journalism & since I do not have internet access at work, I do like having a magazine around to read. My favorites would have to be a couple of UK magazines, Edge & Games TM, which can usually be found at Borders or Barnes & Noble.

Edge recently started a subscription service for the US, which offers the magazine to US subscribers at a lower price ($75 versus $140) for 13 issues & a free t-shirt. As the magazine usually costs $8 at US retailers, this is good deal, plus you get the magazine quicker than you would be able to in US stores. More information can be found here: http://www.edge-online.co.uk/
 
Anyone in the Chicagoland area can just head over to Asahiya Bookstore inside of Mitsuwa Marketplace (on Arlington Heights Rd and Algonquin Rd, just 10 minutes east of Woodfield Mall) and get the same treatment or just pick up individual issues. You can even import books and such by request, or have them hold issues ones coming in by request. It really is a great place and I'm plugging it so it doesn't go down like the import game shop that was right next to it inside the same marketplace. There's a Pace bus stop right outside as well, so, yeah.
 
interesting to see it being offered, but i will be shocked at anyone who jumps on this offer without being able to read japanese.
 
[quote name='grap3fruitman']Anyone in the Chicagoland area can just head over to Asahiya Bookstore inside of Mitsuwa Marketplace (on Arlington Heights Rd and Algonquin Rd, just 10 minutes east of Woodfield Mall) and get the same treatment or just pick up individual issues. You can even import books and such by request, or have them hold issues ones coming in by request. It really is a great place and I'm plugging it so it doesn't go down like the import game shop that was right next to it inside the same marketplace. There's a Pace bus stop right outside as well, so, yeah.[/QUOTE]
I've been going there for many years, ever since it was still called Yaohan Plaza. I knew that they had individual issues, but are you saying that they have subscription services for Japanese magazines as well? Will they mail them to you? (I don't live near Chicago.)
 
[quote name='icruise']I've been going there for many years, ever since it was still called Yaohan Plaza. I knew that they had individual issues, but are you saying that they have subscription services for Japanese magazines as well? Will they mail them to you? (I don't live near Chicago.)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you can either have them mail them to you or pick 'em up yourself.
 
In Japan, Isn't Famitsu not a subscription based magazine and you can only pick em up at newstands? Interesting they will do it to America.
And only for $10 shy of $400!
 
If it was an English-language version, I'd buy it. $7 a week is chump change for the 2 hours of entertainment I'd get out of it. Very little of the news I'm interested in ever makes it to the U.S. or to English-speaking websites. I want to know about the weird games that are never going to be released in the U.S. and it would be nice to have actual reviews of the games I see on sites like Play Asia. I wish some American company would by the rights to this magazine and translate it every week for a U.S. audience.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Yeah, I know, but I thought it was kind of newsworthy too.
Plus, I was tired of looking at those dead Amazon DOTDs.

p.s.
I gots to get pizaid
[/QUOTE]

:lol:

But yea thats insane the most expensive mag I've ever seen. I think here in the states the most expensive magazine I've seen is $60 a year.
 
[quote name='CitizenB']:lol:

But yea thats insane the most expensive mag I've ever seen. I think here in the states the most expensive magazine I've seen is $60 a year.[/QUOTE]
I guess you've never heard of this one.

[quote name='JackFlash666']In Japan, Isn't Famitsu not a subscription based magazine and you can only pick em up at newstands? Interesting they will do it to America.
And only for $10 shy of $400![/QUOTE]

Having an actual subscription to a magazine in Japan is very unusual, so that's no surprise.
 
A weekly video game magazine is kinda badass. Though it makes me wonder if each issue is only a few pages long.
 
Does this ever come with any kind of 'extra' items? Like game demos or little promo items like most of the Anime magazine do? Anyone know? I'm just curious. ^_^
 
[quote name='Strell']Being on the front page implies someone at CAG has the scratch to pony up on a magazine they probably can't even read.

Which, should it come to pass, can only mean that camels through the eyes of needles is sure to follow.[/QUOTE]

I mean, the only person who could afford this deal, jPoD, is banned. So I don't see what the point is.

[quote name='Kendro']A weekly video game magazine is kinda badass. Though it makes me wonder if each issue is only a few pages long.[/QUOTE]

It's actually larger than the gaming MONTHLIES here.
 
[quote name='CitizenB']:lol:

But yea thats insane the most expensive mag I've ever seen. I think here in the states the most expensive magazine I've seen is $60 a year.[/quote]

My wife is always bugging me to get her a subscription to People, which runs well over $100 a year, although it comes out weekly. Most weekly or bi-weekly magazines cost around 50 cents an issue when you subscibe (like Rolling Stone), so I find it hard to justify paying that much for a horrible magazine like People.

Of course, the fact that my wife actually likes People magazine one of the major things that's wrong with our relationship...she has bad taste. She also watched reality TV. Pity me.

If my wife liked well-written, entertaining magazines, I wouldn't have a problem paying $2 an issue, even if most of our subscriptions are free. We currently subscribe to around 25 magazines, and I think the one that costs the most is probably Wizard, which is around $2 an issue. I also order a lot of subscriptions off Ebay, where you can get a subscription for $5 and then they give you 3 bonus magazines for free or whatever. The only problem with this is that every once in a while you get stiffed by an Ebay magazine subscription seller and there's no way to get your money back.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']I mean, the only person who could afford this deal, jPoD, is banned. So I don't see what the point is.[/QUOTE]
He'll be back, then, he'll be all over this hot deal.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']It's actually larger than the gaming MONTHLIES here.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the state of American gaming magazines isn't great. They seem to be getting thinner all the time, and they rarely give you anything you can't get on the Internet. Japanese magazines, for the most part, are great though. Lots of content, and well done. I'd actually subscribe to this if it was a bit cheaper (like $250 or something).

I wonder how much the "commuter culture" of Japan has to do with the continued proliferation of print magazines. While there are lots of PDA/cell phone type devices that allow you to access the Internet even on a train, it's still a pain compared to just reading a magazine.
 
[quote name='icruise']Yeah, the state of American gaming magazines isn't great. They seem to be getting thinner all the time, and they rarely give you anything you can't get on the Internet. Japanese magazines, for the most part, are great though. Lots of content, and well done. I'd actually subscribe to this if it was a bit cheaper (like $250 or something).
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, American gaming mags have gone exponentially downhill ever since the advent of the Internets.
 
The question is, how can the Japanese market support a weekly mag?

"Next week, we expect to see releases for 2 Dynasty Warriors games, 1 Gundam game, and 15 Dating Sims. Additionally, We hear rumors that Namco Bandai is working on a Dynasty Warriors-style Gundam game with DATING SIM ELEMENTS!!!!"

Of course, it's not like westerners can talk at this point. Our biggest release for next week is

"Call of Advanced Rainbow Ghost Company Brothers in Honor: Day of Battlefield Valor" (I hear it's got online coop).
 
Well, the fact of the matter is that the Japanese market gets a lot of stuff that never makes it to the US. A fair amount of it is crap, of course, but there's a lot of good stuff too.
 
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