Wii U to be priced at $299?

[crissindahouse]

superchunk said:

crissindahouse said:
i have a question to amercians or other people who know that. you always have the prices without tax on the price tags in the shops and not like here in europe with tax included, right? (had a discussion with one from here about that)

so if you buy a console there and the official release price will be 299 does this mean you have to pay 299 and the price tag in the shop is like 299-tax or is the price tag 299 and you have to pay that + tax of this region?

this would maybe mean that we europeans don't have to pay as much more as i always thought.

i know you can buy it over the internet and many don't pay tax then but "officially" this would be maybe a smaller difference then?

Its $299 plus whatever sales tax is in your state or city and all our prices always end in .99. So for where I live it would be $299.99 + 9.1% ($27.30) = $327.29 would be my total.

ok thx! then the differeence is smaller than i always thought and i believe in most forums people are talking about when they talk about the bad console price difference between usa and europe. this would mean here in germany, the console wouldn't be 299.99€, it would be 252.09€ without tax (yeah tax is higher in most of europe lol). that would be $336 without tax in germany and not $400 like i always thought

now i understand the difference then, it's not really so big anymore!