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Some PS3 Games to Cost $75 in Japan
Gamasutra reports on pricing for PS3 games in Japan, where some titles may rise as high as (equivalently) $75. From the article: "Japanese game prices can vary considerably across even a single format, depending on the title. Higher profile games, such as the recent Nintendo DS title Final Fantasy III, are often sold at an increased price. Similarly, Xbox 360 titles Dead Rising and Lost Planet will be priced at ¥8,379 ($72) when they are released — ¥1,000 to ¥2,000 ($9 to $17) more than usual. Tecmo's Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 will be sold at an even more excessive ¥9,240 ($79)."
I know it's fun to bash Sony and all lately, but the caption below the title is talking about XBOX 360 games being $72. Is that $3 newsworthy?
We Europeans are paying the equivalent of 75$ for PS2, Gamecube and XBox games and MS (and presumably Sony) still insist on a price hike for next gen. So Japan is paying as much for next-gen as we are paying for current gen and that's suddently outrageous?
By the way, aren't games already past the optimum price? I can't imagine that the higher price won't hurt the sales enough to decrease the profit for the whole game. Even a first semester business student knows that more expensive does not necessarily equate more profit.
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but the caption below the title is talking about XBOX 360 games being $72.
If a game is priced 72 bucks in a country where no one will buy it, does it make a cash-register noise?
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This is just a personal example someone in the UK definite knows more than me. But my sister when to work in London for 7 months.
My parents when over to visit her and said that all the food and stuff was expensive. Like 5 quid for a MickieDs value meal? which would be more than 7-8 dollars here. But the thing was that my sister was making about 7-8 quid/hr which is definitely more that minimum wage here. The argument this many yen = this many dollars should not hold up as a direct transfer to here in the US. Alot of things in Japan are more than here in the US and somethings that are cheap here are more expensive there. I need a little more detail than OMG there paying 9000 yen what are we going to be paying.
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Sony fans, don't worry. The PlayStation 3 isn't doomed.
I'm planning to buy a PS3 at launch, along with whatever games and accessories are available, including redundant things like different types of Sony-branded connection cables. Also, I heard that Sony is selling PS3s at a loss, so I'm planning to mail them a check to try to help cover the difference. I've personally spoken to literally trillions of gamers, and every single one of them is planning to do exactly the same as me.
Based on my completely plausible and irrefutable anecdote, Sony's profits this year will obviously dwarf the GDP of most countries.