Sony's Australia pricing really is ridiculous.

[lultor]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

starcraft said:
I have no idea Zealot. Well I do, profit. Not that that justifies such an insane difference.

Out of fairness I'll point out that Australia has a 10% GST, but that still doesn't bring the prices anywhere close to reasonable or comparable.

And it doesn't explain why Microsoft has made exchange rate concessions recently but Sony hasn't.

I agree with your main post; those prices sound pretty ridiculous (all except the price of the console, because it sounds high in US dollars in large part because the US dollar is so weak.

Which brings me to the bolded statement here.  The difference between the dollar and yen does explain.  Microsoft makes more in $US for each item sold overseas because of the weakness of the dollar.  The yen is quite a bit stronger vs foreign currencies than the dollar is.  And Sony has to take its profits after converting to yen, its home currency. 

So does nintendo