Aeolus451 said:
Companies don't work like that. If any of that was true, you would see companies selling all of their products in the poorest countries. They don't, they avoid those places like the plague because they don't have enough money to afford luxuries, much less able afford the basics of daily life. They'll sell to whoever but if you can't afford, they don't bat a eye. The video game market is doing pretty well and they don't need to lower prices so people from poor countries can afford it so they can make a few pennies more. Besides that would piss off their regular consumers. What leadified said is very much a socialist idea. They are always trying to fund their "help the poor" ideas by stealing from the well off. |
Depends man.
No company would sell with loss forever. But they can enter a market taking a loss to then profit. Or they can do like Unilever that made "single use" containers to sell in Africa. That made their sales uproar. Or in other cases they will make their margin a lot smaller (also sometimes their costs will also decrease).
If price of things weren't in context to the local market then you wouldn't even need to look at the power of the currency the price of anything would be about the same in any single country.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."