The RRP for a full-price new release game in Australia is $120 AUD. Converted to USD, that's about $105, at the current exchange rate. Not only are our games almost twice the price, but we get the European versions of games, which means that we see a delay at least as long as Europe to get any game. Or console. Remember when everyone was raging about $599 USD for a Playstation 3? It debuted at $1000 AUD here, not only that, it was 4 months late, and because it was the European version, was never released with an SKU that included hardware-based backwards compatibility (only crappy software emu).
Some games are never released here at all, such as Rock Band 2.
Also I'm sure you're all well aware of our archaic game classification system, which, due to a lack of a mature rating, means we see even longer delays for games while we wait for them to get censored to squeeze into what is essentially a Teen ESRB rating (GTA IV, Fallout 3).
Of course for some games this is damn-near impossible, so they simply get banned, such as Left 4 Dead 2.
Australia fails at video games.
