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AussieGecko on 17 October 2010
Star-Wars-Josh9 said:

Yea i have been wondering the same thing. it think it would be better to import but then the retailers would make less money so the prices would still stay the same. though i am going to Europe next year with school so i would probably buy a game or 2 as in England that are about 70 AUD at the moment. It is good as the ps3 dose not have region coded games.


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To the thingy at hand, I have mates in England, one is coming back in Jan-Feb as well, And am seriously contemplating giving them money to get me a 360, but as you say region coding is a bi%ch



 

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AussieGecko on 17 October 2010

Also according to vg chartz

ps2 is 2.5mil in aus/nz

xbox is 1.06mil

ps3 is 0.90mil

wii is 1.96mil

NDS is 2.76mil

Which means they are all coming closer to PS2, and those that are following the game industry would know that it in fact has grown greatly. Judging by our population of ~23mil and NZ ~3-4 mil (i think sorry if wrong NZers) that is a pretty good strike rate.

 

That and again the price, if you know the price of elsewhere is much cheaper than where you will look for it and the continuous talk of the Aus Economy in the news (for a few years now) will stop people purchasing of something when the hope is that that product will go down.



 

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Fumanchu on 17 October 2010

You can sort of explain it with reasons about market sizes and subsequent retailer wholesale prices or inflated minimum wages, but it still doesn't explain the price of digital content downloads which should only be affected by the exchange rates.  FYI: Xbox LIVE is $79, most games on demand are $69 and 4000 MS points is $82.50