the thing is that Retailers Have been grossly ripping off consumers for an while now, Buying games at far lower prices than ever before with the strong dollar, yet remaining villiant of such High prices. With an market place of nearing 1.5 million PS3's and 2 million 360s it only seems fair that the RRP drops to at least 80 AUD.
The thing is that, retailers are only going to be screwed over by Importing games. It costs around 45-50 AUD including postage for an brand new recently released console title from the UK and usally get it within 2 weeks. That is 60-70 dollars off RRP and 40 off Jb-hifi price of 89 which is usally the cheapest. An its really easy and there is an strong group of popular sellers doing this. I have also seen Online Ebay centric sellers Drop there price to 60 AUD selling Australia classified games. Now they are getting it from the distributers but are selling them at 50% off RRP.
This is the problem. Retailers are trying to rip off Australian gamers. Really if they could Slash the prices of TV's since the Strong dollar, there is nothing stopping them from Lower Game Retail prices.
What is needed is more people importing games and sales dropping until they drop there prices to 80 dollars RRP. Once that happens then i will stop importing.
I also find its hard seeing steam games 100% more for Australians, being DD the Publisher is making huge profits of every sale with the Publisher most likely on an DD title selling at 89 dollars, making 60 dollars profit per game. Could be more.
Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong
