| Melistrius said: I agree. Here in germany and some countries sourrounding it, it's really bad. Games are 50 Euro PC/Wii, 40 DS and 60 X360/PS3 and they barely drop. 50 Euro are roughly 70 Dollar so you can calculate for yourself. But then look at uk where games are 25-30 pounds. 30 pounds are around 40 dollars. Since we have the goddamn euro it sucks for everything, just way too expensive. And we have not such a big structure for renting games too and if it's 3-5 Euros per day. So I would really love some thing like the one you said. But I doubt something you can count on because most companies want their money as fast as possible and I guess they would be afraid to lose the first day buyers that now wait for the Platinum Version. As I said in another thread, gaming is still luxury and luxury sometimes drop in price if the creator thinks it should or release a better version but overall they want the most out of it and they won't cut their own flesh by admitting that you can get it for half the price half a year later. |
Sorry man, but you got so many thing wrong in here, that I got to correct you.
1. No, it's not the fault of the Euro, we got milked all the time even before. Thanks to the Euro you are now able to import games really cheap from the Uk, which I do all the time.
2. The reason why we do get milked is in my opinion, that at the beginning of modern video games the exchange rate between US-dollar and D-Mark was around 4:1 and it dropped ever since.
3. I still have my first ever video games magazine (from around 1991) and the prices where between 120-140 D-Mark for Sega Mega Drive games (that's between 60-70 Euros).
So the prices haven't changed at all and have actually dropped a lot if you calculate the inflation in
As for the opening post. I don't think this will change anything. It's only the million sellers, who keep their prices up (look at the titles with Wii in it). As for the rest, you already get you huge price drop even wihtin one month.
