applet, you said that you believe this board to be well worth the (roughly) $100 it sells for locally in Japan. Do the brown cherries (over the blues) and the fit and finish warrant the 60 extra dollars over the price of a M10?
Not sure how to anwser that. First, I don't have a Scorpius M10. I mean, I know how the blue Cherry MX switches feel, since I have a Das Keyboard II, but I don't have first hand experience of the other aspects of the M10 to make a judgement. Second, even though I don't have an M10, I think it's a terrific deal to get a keyboard with clicky Cherry blues for 40 bucks. So that distorts any consideration of whether the Majestouch (at 11,800 JPY = around $106) is $60 or $66 better than the M10, since I think the M10 is undervalued at $40.
Two or three more things: I don't think of the brown Cherries as being better than the blues. I'm favoring the browns myself right now, but that's personal preference, and someone else may like the clicky blues much more. So for the purposes of comparison, I would call it a wash between the brown and the blue Cherries.
Also, I got the Majestouch with the N-key rollover feature. It may be fairer to compare the Scorpius M10 to the basic Majestouch model instead. The basic model with brown or black Cherry switches costs 9,450 JPY (or around $85), and the basic model with the blue clicky Cherries (just introduced, I believe, and not yet available with English layout) costs 9,800 JPY (or around $88). So then the question becomes: Is the Majestouch $48 better than the M10 in quality of fit and finish (putting aside the issue of brown vs. black Cherry switches). And again, I don't really know since I've never touched an M10.
I have touched Das Keyboard II, though, which is $79. Is the Majestouch, at the equivalent of $88 USD, nine dollars better in quality of fit and finish than Das Keyboard II? Most definitely. I think it's better by a larger margin than that.
In absolute terms, would I pay $88 dollars for a basic Majestouch with clicky blue Cherries or the soft-tactile brown Cherries? In a heartbeat.
(All this is of course presuming I'm a rational consumer, and ignoring the fact that I willingly paid a lot more than that after commissions and shipping for my Majestouch, both to feed my keyboard habit and to satisfy my curiosity about brown Cherry MX switches.)