Thats just because of price cuts at retail by Activision. New products will always be expensive.

@Onyxmeth for $100 you get Drums,2 guitars and a mic,For $100 on DJ hero you get a turn table W00T!

I bought the Guitar Hero 3 bundle at full price.  It's not my fault the Aerosmith bundle bombed and I was able to pick it up for $40 not long after it came out.

I don't understand your point. You obviously didn't buy them day one at that price, since their original retail were $90 each, so if you're more of a budget gamer, then just wait until DJ Hero hits a price you're more comfortable with. Simple as that. I just bought GHIII two months ago and I spent $10 on it, but that's just the way I roll. I'm not going to expect one of those games to be in that price range the moment it releases. My point was I don't see what the big deal is with this particular game since it's in the same price range every other peripheral based rhythm game is.

If you're talking about Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2, then their original retail price is $189.99, not $100.

Edit: Also I forgot, that is including only one guitar, not two. An extra guitar would be anywhere from $40-$70 I think.

I bought Guitar Hero 3 within the first month it was out, brand new at Best Buy for $70.  I don't think it was ever $90.  I bought the Aeromith version within six months of its release, brand new, at Circuit City for $40.  I don't think that was ever $90 either.

does the game come with a turn table o.o

Ok again, what is your point? This is a thread bitching about Europeans getting fucked over in price exclusively by this one game DJ Hero. You're talking about not liking the retail price of all peripheral based rhythm games. It's a lovely argument, but it just doesn't have anything to do with this thread.

Also do you have anything chronicling GHIII being sold at retail for $40 one month after release as opposed to say...a sale? I'm fairly sure the game was retailing for $90 for quite a while.

Check my edit. GHIII started at $70.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't a sale because it was supply constrained at the time.  It took me weeks to find in stores.  It was sold out everywhere I went.  Why would there be a sale on that?  It was Aerosmith that got price slashed shortly after release, not a sale either, regular price.  Then again, maybe that's why Circuit City went out of business.

Also, I'm talking about the Wii version of everything.  I'm not sure what Activision does now, but the Wii stuff was cheaper than the 360/PS3 stuff back then.

What this has to do with the thread is that it is over priced for every region.  Although it's worse for the Europeans.

I don't see how activision can continue with this model. Guitar hero and Rock band I think are popular, but at some point people will stop filling their living room with bi plastic peripherals. Activision now wants people to add a skateboard and a turn table to their drum kits, microphone stands, and guitars. At some point people will say "I'm not shelling out another 120-200 dollars for a game". It seems to me like there has to be a saturation point on expensive peripheral based games.