NIS America recently launched their new European store, allowing fans in Europe to buy Limited Editions of their games directly, without having to import them from the US store. Of course, this includes the upcoming Atlus game, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: The Wild Cards Premium Edition. However, while this should have been good news, the fans were quick to realize that the prices were a lot higher in the European store than in the US one.

Yesterday NISA opened up pre-orders for the Persona Q EU Premium Edition, but unfortunately the price for the game is also a lot a higher than its US counterpart. I’d personally have to pay $138 (game + shipping) to get the EU Premium Edition of the game, compared to the $80 + free shipping price of the US version. While we’re used to seeing higher prices for our games in the EU compared to the US, the steep 73% price increase is difficult to accept for the European Persona fans. NISA also announced (cheaper) standard shipping options for the majority of countries outside of the UK, although it’s not clear which countries actually get this option. In any case, it did little to stop the complaints. Fans are still asking NISA to lower the price of the games themselves, but at the moment it seems NISA is not planning to do so.

On NISA’s Facebook page some users have noted that there are local retailers in the EU that are now also accepting pre-orders for the Premium Edition for as low as €70. Despite these reports, NISA claims the Premium Edition is only available from the NISA EU Store. We’ll try to get more details on this, as an alternative to the NISA store would be a welcome thing indeed.

We’ve already reported on the preorder bonuses for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax earlier on, but during E3 Atlus also revealed a new trailer and the preorder bonuses for Persona Q. The first run of copies will include 11 Tarot Cards, which complement the other set of Tarot Cards that will be included in the preorder bonuses for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. The regular edition of the game will cost $49.99. Atlus will also be releasing a “Wild Cards” premium edition of the game, which includes the Tarot Cards but also an art book, soundtrack CD and a Deluxe Hard Case for the 3DS XL for the price of $79.99.

Persona Q Premium Edition

For those interested in preordering, you can find a list of retailers on the official website for the game.

Aside from the preorder bonuses, there’s also the Persona Q E3 trailer which we haven’t posted yet. That one can be seen here:

The game sold well in its first week in Japan, which is a certainly good sign for the future of the franchise, given how it’s the first Persona game to be released on a Nintendo platform. Nintendo have also revealed that Persona Q will be released in Europe by NIS America later this year, and although they can’t release an official announcement yet, both employees of NIS America and Atlus dropped by on Reddit to confirm the news. It seems Persona Q is shaping up to be another success for Atlus, which in turn is good news for Sega and also the fans looking forward to seeing more games localized from Japan (both from Sega and Atlus).