Microsoft refuses to hand over new 60GB 360 to Europe!

[NJ5]

ferret1603 said:

NJ5 said:

shams said:
Europe already had a price cut... even though the console is still over priced.

If MS don't care about Europe sales, they are going about this the right way.

Speaking as a European:

"Overpriced" is relative... Does the current weakness of the US dollar entitle everyone else in the world to an equivalent price cut? I don't think so, especially considering that manufacturing is not necessarily paid for in US dollars.

Another two important things are:

1- People doing currency conversions usually forget to account for taxes, which are included in European prices but not in USA's prices.

2- In many EU countries, all electronics have a warranty of 2 years by law, which isn't the case in USA.

To be sure, European gamers do pay more for hardware and software, but the difference is not as big as most naive comparisons make it seem.

 

Depends where you live. Plenty of places in the US don't have sales tax. And as those that do have varying rates from place to place it's impossible to include it in calculations.

You must have misunderstood my post. You don't have to do anything with US's prices as those already do not include sales tax. It's the European prices which have to be recalculated in order to do a fair comparison.

Of course, in Europe sales tax also varies by country, but most countries average around 20% from what I know (Scandinavian countries are more, UK is a bit less, but 20% seems like a good number to use in a rough calculation). This means dividing European prices by 1.2 to get the pre-tax amount (and this still doesn't account for the warranty issue).