RE4 Rip-Off!!!!!

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OriGin said:

Ummm... are people stupid?

*sigh*

I'm stick of people complaining about the price of things in Australia when compared to the United States.

What were you just born yesterday?

It's been like this since forever... my first memory was seeing the price of some Michael Jordan's that my Dad brought me back from American when I was rather young and they were 1/4 the price they are here.

GET OVER IT... there is a reason and no one stated it so far...

It's called population size and ultimately HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN BUY THE GAME.

If the proposed market is smaller the price has to go up because profit margins have to be the same for companies... you could KEEP complaining, but I'm sure you would complain more if companies thought 'screw Australia all together, there is no point because it only makes up .5% of our profit for the entire year, in the end the effort isn't worth it, lets just not release games at all'

Some Australian are such tight wads and think that all things are equal because of the Internet age...

 

In summary you sell a million copies of a game at $5 profit that is $5,000,000.

In Australia you can sell maybe ten thousand copies of the same game at $5 profit that is $50,000.

HARDLY worth it, thus, the price is jacked.

/endrant

Well in AUS the PS3 sells for exactly $1,000. Which is $840 USD, PS3 is selling better here in Australia in ratio to America, so STFU with that 'Aussies are cheap bullshit'.