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Isn't the reason for this that Japanese game prices tend to be higher (sometimes the equivalent of $120 or $100 USD) and stay above baseline due to the lack of a cultural expectation that aging games should drop dramatically in price? So there is a very real incentive for Japanese bargain hunters to acquire overseas versions of games, if they can read them.

It has closer equivalence to Steam making it hard for people to use local pricing from Latvia or whatever to cheap ass games.

And in fact those versions of games sometimes have the English language options removed for the same reason.