VGhippy on 26 July 2008
| Rock_on_2008 said: Europeans pay much higher prices for consoles than the NA region. The main corporations take the Europeans for a ride. Europeans are willing to pay high prices without a murmur. |
To be honest we pay about the same proportionally to earnings. I think the huge mistake people make is they just take the cost of the product in the UK in x-pounds and double it to x-dollars (rough exchange rate) and compare it to how much they earn in dollars and it seems like a lot. But you have to remember that our wage in the UK is doubled when you convert it into dollars as well. So for example I am a cleaner and I get paid about 7 pounds an hour. This is converted into 14 dollars which is over twice the federal minimum wage in the US. Our minimum wage for over 21's in the UK converts into about 11 dollars an hour. We can pay more for consoles here because the lower classes generally earn more too.
