BucksRuleAll22 wrote: Theres really no games at all or comming out soon for Wii either.
Your knowledge of basketball is dwarfed only by your knowledge of the Wii. As per usual you're talking out of your arse.
Fandom wrote:newly released games here cost $80-$100
Geez, what's the reasoning behind the games being so expensive in the land down under?
Don't forget that the price advertised in Australia includes tax whereas most Americans would be used to their system where a price is quoted before tax (I have no idea why they do this in the US, it's quite annoying), so the price difference isn't as large as you might initially perceive.
Also no small part is that the prices are just low in the US because the gaming companies target that market. Prices are also higher in Europe (partially a high tax deal, but prices are higher before taxes too), the market in Europe is large, but not seen as being important. Gaming companies need the American and Japanese markets.
Companies also state that higher prices also result from exchange rate issues, but when favourable exchange rate changes occur the prices never drop.
And part of it is just that in Australia the market is just small, so economies of scale aren't reached and markets aren't as efficient as in bigger countries. Prices don't drop because wholesale prices from the gaming distributors are higher as no big companies can match the buying power of Walmart or BestBuy. This gets pushed to the consumer, with the added bonus of not as much competition at the retail level and therefore no need to force down prices
One would hope that eBay could help to fnd games cheaply, but even that would be limited.
