_mevildan said:
I live in South Africa, and I always find it very interesting to look at price discussions etc on this site. Xbox price cuts, perfect price points etc.
I realise I am not really relevant on this site because of my location, but here are some of my thoughts.
Here on my crummy side of the planet, games and consoles are corruptly expensive. I am sure in parts outside of North America, Europe and Japan, there are places equally corrupt.
I used google to do some US dollar conversions to give you an idea of how much I have to fork out for essentially the same experience. Note, these are also some of the cheapest prices I can get online here:
40Gb Playstation 3 console (this is the only one you can get here):
4500 South African rands = 586.60200 U.S. dollars
Metal Gear Solid 4 (not special edition) from nice online store:
696 South African rands = 90.727776 U.S. dollars
Metal Gear Solid 4 at big South African franchise store:
899 South African rands = 117.190044 U.S. dollars
Dual Shock 3 Controller just release (I got mine for less than R450 imported luckily):
709 South African rands = 92.422404 U.S. dollars
Most games here are about R600 (MGS4 was extremely murderous to my wallet):
600 South African rands = 78.2136 U.S. dollars
Anyone else from outside the above mentioned areas dealing with corrupt prices like these?
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