Sony Boss Spits The Dummy Over PS3 Pricing Claims

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Infamy79 said:

NJ5 said:

Quickdraw McGraw said:

twingo said:
They want to cry about something they should cry to their gov to drop tariffs, until then stfu with all the whining about price.

This was, arguably, the most intelligent post in this thread, it's a shame it was overlooked.

You can't merely say 'X' console cost 'Y' amount of dollars in the US and 'Z' amount of dollars in Australia and call it a rip-off. There are many more factors to consider.

It would have helped if twingo had given some links or indications about which tariffs these are, and how much they increase the price as compared to the US. One thing may be VAT, but I don't even know if that is included in the MSRP as it happens in Europe.

 

We don't have VAT, we have GST which is 10%. Not much more than the sales tax in most states of the USA.

As for the shipping costs mentioned in another post earlier. I know everyone thinks that Australia is millions of miles away from everywhere, but as the PS3 is made in Asia and we are part of the Asia-Pacific region, it should be about half the distance and therefore cheaper to ship to Australia as it is to ship to the US or Europe.

 

I often wonder about that.

Perhaps that Australia only has about 30 Million people living in it as opposed to the 200 million or whatever in the US has something to do with it.