| rendo said: Hate to say it starcraft, but if you're not American you're screwed. I'm Canadian and our dollar gives us about 96 cents US, and we STILL pay $289.99 for a Wii and $549.99 for the 60gig PS3. At least M$ was kind enough to give us a $100 price drop, but it's just the way it works. The US has a much larger economy, not necessarily stronger, and they can make demands that us smaller, but still economically powerful nations can't, and have other nations agree to them. :( It's like when I shop for computer parts. Our dollars are basically the same, yet all across the board there's 10-30% price differences. :/ Maybe importing is cheaper for, have you looked into that? Get a NTSC (Assuming Australia is PAL) Wii, and see how much it'd cost a buddy of yours overseas to ship the units to you, barring customs and tariffs. |
There's a lot of inertia in pricing. They can't just slap on a new inventory sticker every time currency markets fluctuate. These prices were probably set back when CDN$ were still trading around 80 cents.
Hard to say when it will happen, but prices do eventually adjust to reflect these currency valuations. Steven787 is absolutely right to point out that there are a great number of factors involved.
Anyway, the interesting question is: What made you decide to buy a Wii, starcraft?
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