@omgwtf... 1. Of course importing is small due region coding... :) 2. It's madness not to make NTSC compatible console to Australia. But even if Australia would have non-Europe localised version, there would still be a markup for prices. Think about different costs in shipping, taxes and retailers profits. 3. Their local companies suffer from importing. This means less advertising and worse customer service. 4. Dropping prices is usually used for boosting the sales, but with certain price compared to certain sales, lower (or even current) pricepoint is no longer profitable enough. Therefore you have to either raise prices or stop selling the product to sell something else, that you can make profit with. If importing and downloading games is pretty common in Australia, it's no wonder that prices are so high. Anyway, if console manufacturers decides to hit China, or other low income countries, with low pricepoint games (which is needed for wide success), importing from these countries become a problem. Then you will really lose money.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
