rant rant rant
I went to pick up a few things today and skimmed past the nintendo section like I always do since I remembered that phoenix wright has a sequel, and while I had a feeling the prices were high on DS games here, I didn't realize exactly how high. Note that this shop is one of the more pricier stores, but when I say that it's only a 5-10 dollar difference so it's barely worth mentioning.
I took pics with my camera phone which sucks major dick, so I couldn't get completely clear screens, but here's the best I could do with obvious price edits.
Anyway I'll let the pictures do the talking.
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http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3703/zeldaxw7.jpg
(isn't this one a budget title for USA now?)
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Don't worry Wii, you're not alone, DS is here to rip those of us who play portable.
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Funny, with prices like these, you can only imagine why piracy skyrockets in Australia. It's not one of those "chicken or egg" debates either, because prices have always been overinflated like this since Atari. DVDs aren't nearly as horrible, I can find 10-30 dollar DVDs around (still a bit expensive but bearable).
The current exchange rate -
1 AUD = 0.891892 USD
So the games listed for 100 , they are in fact 89.2091 USD. All console games here get released for 99.95 when new, only drop when there's a special or they've been out for a very very long time, and when they're dropped it's down to 80$.
Would you feel ok paying 90 bucks for a wii game? Or what about 60-70 for a DS chip? I don't get why we have to pay so much. Sucks because I don't like to pirate, but with prices like this, why should I even pay?
As for the question on how much would I pay? Well, I guess it all depends how much shipping fees are from playasia.com (thanks sony for sealing lik-sang away, gj)