x360 in JAPAN ..... a real shame for next gen

[HappySqurriel]

sieanr said: Yeah, Sony is so great for raising the cost of the PS3 for Europe! They did it to adjust in differences between minimum wage, not median income, that way you Brits will have to work just as hard to get your super system called PS3.

European countries make as much (or more) than Americans but, because their cost of living is much higher, most have a lot less disposable income: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita The difference in the cost of living is probably (roughly) equal to the price difference on the PS3 ... One would expect that the lower disposable income would lead to less people being willing/able to pay so much money on a videogame system ...