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Spankey on 26 January 2009

To be fair, we only know one side of the story, and don't even know from that article what was said exactly that enraged the CEO.
X360 and the Wii are probably also more expensive in Aus than they are in the US, Practically everything electronics wise is i'm sure.
Australia is a bit more out of the way than US, and it's far more expensive to ship there.
Even if Sony is shipping direct to retailer, someone has to pay for the stuff to get there, shipping is not free last time I checked.



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amirnetz on 26 January 2009

Somebody really lost it down under.



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Hammer-of-Dawn on 26 January 2009

lol at Sony fighting over how best to rip off their once devoted consumer base.



grimygunz on 26 January 2009

hold up what is that site crying about ain't the 360 core 299 there. All the systems cost more there.



Jo21 on 26 January 2009

well sony is selling the ps3 here now at 499$ psp at 200$ and ps2 150$



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noname2200 on 26 January 2009
Spankey said:

To be fair, we only know one side of the story, and don't even know from that article what was said exactly that enraged the CEO.
X360 and the Wii are probably also more expensive in Aus than they are in the US, Practically everything electronics wise is i'm sure.
Australia is a bit more out of the way than US, and it's far more expensive to ship there.
Even if Sony is shipping direct to retailer, someone has to pay for the stuff to get there, shipping is not free last time I checked.

We do, actually, and they're not too flattering to the website. Evidently, they had posted some misinformation not too long ago ("SmartHouse initially did infer that regional coding prevented consumers from using software purchased in the USA, we were wrong and have removed the comment."). They also recently wrote another anti-Sony article, which you can read here.

As I said in my comment section, this seems to be one of those stories that has no real hero.

 



grimygunz on 26 January 2009

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/hardware/console101.htm

here is the 360 pricing There. and this is after the price drop



NJ5 on 26 January 2009
grimygunz said:
http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/hardware/console101.htm

here is the 360 pricing There. and this is after the price drop

It seems prices are in line with USA prices. 299 AU $ = 200 US $ for the Arcade for example.

 



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Spankey on 26 January 2009
noname2200 said:
Spankey said:

To be fair, we only know one side of the story, and don't even know from that article what was said exactly that enraged the CEO.
X360 and the Wii are probably also more expensive in Aus than they are in the US, Practically everything electronics wise is i'm sure.
Australia is a bit more out of the way than US, and it's far more expensive to ship there.
Even if Sony is shipping direct to retailer, someone has to pay for the stuff to get there, shipping is not free last time I checked.

We do, actually, and they're not too flattering to the website. Evidently, they had posted some misinformation not too long ago ("SmartHouse initially did infer that regional coding prevented consumers from using software purchased in the USA, we were wrong and have removed the comment."). They also recently wrote another anti-Sony article, which you can read here.

As I said in my comment section, this seems to be one of those stories that has no real hero.

 

 

Thanks for that link!

do you perhaps have a link to the article that "SmartHouse initially did infer that regional coding prevented consumers from using software purchased in the USA, we were wrong and have removed the comment." refers to? it would be interesting to read that and I couldn't find a link to it from the source in your OP...



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Pristine20 on 26 January 2009
Hammer-of-Dawn said:
lol at Sony fighting over how best to rip off their once devoted consumer base.

 

All systems are more expensive there.



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