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Forums - Nintendo - Phantom Brave Wii is $60 CAD? WTF?!

famousringo on 25 May 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
famousringo said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
famousringo said:
It's not going to sell much, anyway. I know I have a gajillion other games I want to buy.

They are all inferior to Phantom Brave.

Disgaea didn't impress me, so they're going to need more than your boosterism and a full-priced port to sell me on it. Valkyrie Profile is doing a very adequate job of satisfying my SRPG hunger right now.

Phantom Brave is closer to Makai Kingdom than Disgaea.  You should learn more about it before you write it off.

My two main beefs with Disgaea are that it has grinding and healers are a pain to level, does Phantom Brave suffer from either problem?

@ Galaki

Exchange rates change. $60 CAD is a standard MSRP for Wii games right now. I just paid that much for Punch Out!! Problem is, Amazon.com is selling it for $40 USD, so that price is hosing Canadians for $10-15.



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Galaki on 25 May 2009

Yeah! They added additional "tax" or something while doing exchange. Quite BS.



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NanakiXI on 25 May 2009

Guess i interpreted this information wrong. $60 in Canadian money isn't as bad as $60 US lol.

Still a little much for an old port but RPGs always tend to be on the pricey side :P



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Galaki on 25 May 2009

I bet they round up on all prices. Maybe the game came out to $50.34 but had to be rounded up to $59.99 to standardize the pricing.



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NanakiXI on 25 May 2009
Galaki said:
I bet they round up on all prices. Maybe the game came out to $50.34 but had to be rounded up to $59.99 to standardize the pricing.

Could be. Though the logical thing to do is round the price down since it is at $50.34. To round up it must be at least $54.45 since every number prior to the hundredth percentile will raise one unit higher than the original number was.

At least in the Continental US it is pretty cut and dry when it comes to the pricing. Our neighbors aren't so lucky (Including Alaska and Hawaii).



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LordTheNightKnight on 25 May 2009

http://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Brave-Meet-Again-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B001TKK3NE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1243243163&sr=8-1

It's just $40. The OP link is to the Canadian site.



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Galaki on 25 May 2009

Current exchange rate,
1 U.S. dollar = 1.12030006 Canadian dollars

Let's give them some huge profit and make it 1.2.

$39.99 USD = $49.99 CAD

Now, how the hell did that come to $59.99?



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Galaki on 25 May 2009
NanakiXI said:
Galaki said:
I bet they round up on all prices. Maybe the game came out to $50.34 but had to be rounded up to $59.99 to standardize the pricing.

Could be. Though the logical thing to do is round the price down since it is at $50.34. To round up it must be at least $54.45 since every number prior to the hundredth percentile will raise one unit higher than the original number was.

At least in the Continental US it is pretty cut and dry when it comes to the pricing. Our neighbors aren't so lucky (Including Alaska and Hawaii).

There's no such thing as rounding down when it comes to money. It's always CEIL.



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arsenal009 on 25 May 2009

$60 for a PS2 port? And this is why ppl pirate games...



NanakiXI on 25 May 2009
Galaki said:
NanakiXI said:
Galaki said:
I bet they round up on all prices. Maybe the game came out to $50.34 but had to be rounded up to $59.99 to standardize the pricing.

Could be. Though the logical thing to do is round the price down since it is at $50.34. To round up it must be at least $54.45 since every number prior to the hundredth percentile will raise one unit higher than the original number was.

At least in the Continental US it is pretty cut and dry when it comes to the pricing. Our neighbors aren't so lucky (Including Alaska and Hawaii).

There's no such thing as rounding down when it comes to money. It's always CEIL.

Technically yes you are right and I give you that. But it is total BS that they can skip mathematical logic when it comes to cash/money and do this. Shouldn't they just put the price at $54.99 then? That is the real logical thing to do.

Seems like more companies could do better with Walmart pricing. Granted I dislike Walmart and their prices can be retarded ($59.22 for a game just sounds funky) but at least they don't mark prices up to squeeze every last penny out of the consumer.



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