Modern Warfare 2 to cost £54.99 in UK

[Ail]

kiefer23 said:

Ail said:

kowenicki said:

Ail said:
Seeing how a gallon of Gas is roughly 10$ in England (granted the english gallons are a little bigger) I wouldn't say game companies are the one doing most of the profiteering......
Or a movie ticket is 8.5 pounds in London ( $14 or so) or a can of coke 0.6 pounds ( $0.90, it's $0.33 in the us if you purchase packs of 12 cans...)

Again you show you know nothing about our economy.... petrol (gas) - 70% of that is tax!  Pack of 12 cokes is about 4.00, nowhere near 60p per can in supermarkets. 

 

Well pack of 12 is 4$ here so exactly same ratio between coke prices and game prices ( actually game price should be 60 pounds to get the same ratio).

 

Yeah but we shouldn't have to pay for the things at the same ratio of dollars. $60 dollars is £36. We should never have to pay £60 for games. How would you like paying $98 per game?

Games have always been cheaper in US anyway. 4 pounds cheaper.

It's a lot more complex than that.

First prices include the VAT in British price when they don't include it in the US.

From what I found on the web the V.A.T, on a 55 pounds game is about  7.5 pounds.

 

So really you have to compare 60$ to 47.5 pounds.

And then there are a lot more things to take into account.

Minimum legal salary in England is a lot higher  than in the US. so retailers probably have bigger margins than in the US to account for that ( the fact that retailers tend to drop price of games quickly in England while they do not in the US makes me believe they have higher margins too..)

England is well an island and most likely the costs to ship the products to retailer are higher than in the US or continental europe due to that....

 

In the end what you would really want to know for a fairer comparison is how much Acitivision charges Gamestop for a copy of MW2 compared to what they charge a big english retailer chain....