Japanese retailer lets you own FFXIII for seven days for just five bucks

Japenese retailer Tsutaya has one pre-order offer that you’d want your local Gamestop to have. While some publishers roll out demos for their games so you could take them for a test-drive before making the actual purchase, this Japanese retailer takes a similar concept and takes it a notch up. Read on and find out how.

Japenese retailer Tsutaya has one pre-order offer that you’d want your local Gamestop to have. While some publishers roll out demos for their games so you could take them for a test-drive before making the actual purchase, this Japanese retailer takes a similar concept and takes it a notch up. Read on and find out how.

Starting today, September 30th, Tsutaya will be taking pre-orders for Final Fantasy XIII at ¥7,980 (about US$ 89). If you take them up on that offer, you will be entitled to a ¥7,500 money-back stub.

Now, Final Fantasy XIII arrives in Japan on December 17th for the PlayStation 3, while the money-back stub is valid until the 24th. Those who pre-order will get to own the game for a good full week, then if they decide not to keep it, they can get most of their money back, losing only Â¥ 480, which is just about US$ 5. In effect, you’d renting the game for a week for five bucks.

Even if the copies will go to the used games shelf, they would likely still be in very good shape. Players wanting to beat the game in seven days wouldn’t be messing around with other games in that time, so the disc would stay safely nestled in the drive.

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Via Tsutaya