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The Ultimate Hi Def Next Gen Console thread (internet connection required)
K1dmor:
Because they mostly cost the same? People in Spain for example pay the same prices in games/consoles just changing the $ to €.
Btw, the prices of the announcement said:
$399, €399 and £349; so they're not all equivalent.
satsugaikaze:
They don't cost the same.
399 euro is about 530 USD.
349 BP is about 540 USD.
International gamers are paying another hundred and a bit dollars to get the same product. It's fucking absurd.
K1dmor:
I didn't mean the conversion is the same, i meant the number is :laugh: .
About international gamer:
In Australia for example, they're gonna pay almost $100 more for each console; The Xbox One, according to a representative from Microsoft Australia, will cost $599 Australian (Adding in GST, the conversion goes up to $580, but add an extra $20 on top of direct conversion); Plus the Shipping over seas costs, etc.
Remember the US price doesn't include tax either.
Kugai:
Microsoft has announced its next gaming console – the Xbox One – will go on sale in New Zealand in November.
It will cost $749, and include a 500GB hard drive, a Blu-ray player and built-in Wi-Fi, the new Kinect motion detection system, a single Xbox One wireless controller and a free 14-day trial of Xbox Live Gold.
satsugaikaze:
And that's the thing.
I don't care how good a launch day lineup of games is, I'm not going to spend more than half a grand minimum for any of these entertainment experiences. It just disgusts me that for a demographic that is largely international they have to make people not in the US shell out another hundred or two dollars for the same product - Playstation or Xbox be damned.
Besides the games that I'm truly, genuinely excited for, the whole next-generation console gaming from a financial perspective is a complete farce. I'm glad that current-generation support for gaming will run concurrently to this next-generation, because I think next-gen purchases will have a veeeeeery long tail.
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