| Zappykins said: I was thinking of this too! It brings Australia in the same pricing to the USA, which seems reasonable to me. I've never understood why it was so much more expensive in Australia, considering it doesn't have to travel as far from (most of) it's manufacturing source. Plus, I think you can use it as a cable box on Foxtel, they got Bing voice search with Kinect last fall. Seems like a good time for Aussie Xboxers. PS I wonder when they will get Netflix?
|
It cost so much becuase retailers priced it at double the USA cost when our dollar was litrally worth 0.5 USD. That was the reason they used for high prices until our dollar was worth more than USD. They just never dropped the price and used BS excuses like shipping costs, taxes, higher wages to staff (this one is partially true as cost of living in AUs is BS) and less people here than other countries, so cannot profit if lower price.
Foxtel yes,
netflix doesn't exist. we have quickflix here (not sure if its part of netflix). quickflix is avaialble on PS3 for approx $15 a month for TV and movies.
