"For every fatuous US/EU price comparison, there's always some feckless idiot who bangs on about the multiple languages in Europe and the translation costs yada yada yada."
It's called "the cost of doing business". It's why PS3's don't cost the same as penny sweets, and the same reason why when you see something in a retail store at £20 and spot it on a website at £20 you know the website isn't offering you a good deal.
"It costs more to sell 1 PS3 in the UK that it does to sell 1 PS3 in the the US" - I'm not saying it's right, but it's the way it is. Bitching about the realities of doing business isn't going to fix anything.
Let's assume that a company released a product that costs exactly the same in the UK as it does in the US. Don't you think the people in the US would be getting a raw deal given the size of their market compared to ours?
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"For every fatuous US/EU price comparison, there's always some feckless idiot who bangs on about the multiple languages in Europe and the translation costs yada yada yada."
It's called "the cost of doing business". It's why PS3's don't cost the same as penny sweets, and the same reason why when you see something in a retail store at £20 and spot it on a website at £20 you know the website isn't offering you a good deal.
"It costs more to sell 1 PS3 in the UK that it does to sell 1 PS3 in the the US" - I'm not saying it's right, but it's the way it is. Bitching about the realities of doing business isn't going to fix anything.
Let's assume that a company released a product that costs exactly the same in the UK as it does in the US. Don't you think the people in the US would be getting a raw deal given the size of their market compared to ours?