Buying GameCube games in different regions
This blog post was inspired by discovering that Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire, a legendarily rare and expensive GameCube game in the United States (>$2,400 USD), could be purchased complete-in-box (CIB) in Japan for $50 USD. That's a savings of ~$2350, or ~95% of the US price. This is a somewhat extreme example: in the US market Pokémon Box was only sold online and at a single store: the Pokémon Center in New York City.
This big price difference between regions got me thinking: what other games are cheaper in other regions and by how much?
Read more: https://sethmlarson.dev/buying-gamecube-games-from-another-region
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