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Microsoft Announces "Game Room," Confirms Natal For Late 2010
Microsoft has confirmed that their upcoming motion-control system, Natal, will be released during the 2010 holiday season. The announcement was made during CES, alongside news of "Game Room," a service that will act like a virtual arcade, bringing classic games to users of the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live. It's due out this spring with 30 games to start, and will gradually ramp up to over a thousand titles. According to Kotaku, "You can buy a game for between 240-400 Microsoft Points, or if you really want that old arcade feeling, you can pay 40 Microsoft Points and play the game once, like it was 1985 and you'd just dropped a quarter." Another interesting bit of news is that subscribers to AT&T's U-Verse will soon be able to use the Xbox 360 as their set-top box.
They wouldn't do real time conversion because it's always better (for the seller) to have the prices at like $9.99 or $19.99. It would result in a much different prices everywhere, most likely as stupidly as $19.99, 19.99€ and £19.99. I know the points are priced a little bit differently in different countries, but it isn't that bad (publisher do exactly that on Steam sometimes).
Since I don't usually buy the points but pay with credit card when I'm buying something, I know the price exactly anyway.
PS3 uses real currency, but it's not automatic conversion - they've set different prices for different regions. I'm quite ok with both models really, since in both cases I know how much I'm spending.
Its funny cos its true.