Europeans Pay Double for Test Drive on 360

I never thought was good anyway but when i read this:

" The US and Europe are very different markets in terms of the penetration of Xbox 360 and HDTV," said Bonnell. " The US is much more advanced than Europe so we believe the time is right to introduce a lower price point. This is why we have chosen to be aggressive. But we won' t do that in Europe."

looks like Atari guys don´t travel much to Europe...they still think we live in stone age or something....

Any of you intend to buy this game? For what i saw so far it looked like a average race game...nothing outstanding.

Aw what? That' s unfair. We already pay more for the games and the console in the first place. Does this apply to the UK too?

I was going to get Test Drive, just to collect all the nice looking cars and maybe cruise around in them online....but not for £50.

I don' t mind. The game will be region encoded so importing' s not an option. £50 for an AWESOME drivng game isn' t so bad and it' ll keep me until Forza 2 and PGR4 arrive.

The Test Drive demo is superb and as long as the game doesn' t lag online then it' s going to be a must have. It sucks that Europe gets stung with a higher pricetag but there are always other great driving/racing games if you don' t want to fork out the RRP.

To be honest I didn' t like the demo so I wasn' t really excited about getting it.

um... Atari/Bonnel IS European. They' re based in France. What they don' t know about Europe isn' t worth knowing!

Have to agree with you dasher, i wasn' t impressed in the slightest, my friend though (it was his 360) thought it was ok, but i' m sure he wouldn' t drop near £40-50 for it.

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Racing games aren' t fun as it is! Except the futuristic ones, give me another Rollcage or Dethcarts please!

I think someone should sit down and actually put some thought into a racing game that would blow everything else away. Lately they all just seem like they follow the same dried out ' ' city' ' racing plot with the odd blow stuff up (which is good when it' s used right). I want a racing game like buggy heat to come on the scene or just a really good off road one (non-colin mcre I hate that game).

Nothing to do with the Huge Financial Strain the Company is going through then?


I think Atari is run by a group of Tarined Monkeys [poorly trained monkeys that is] ever since they sold Unreal 2007 to Midway. Idiots!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I think someone should sit down and actually put some thought into a racing game that would blow everything else away. Lately they all just seem like they follow the same dried out ' ' city' ' racing plot with the odd blow stuff up (which is good when it' s used right). I want a racing game like buggy heat to come on the scene or just a really good off road one (non-colin mcre I hate that game).

Have you tried Rallisport Challenge 2 or Outrun 2 (not coast2coast)?

Rollcage should definitely get a next gen version :)

Nah I really should get outrun2 but thought they might do a revamped one but I should it looked good.

Why didnt you guys just buy US x360s? All the games will play fine on your HDTV... and you can buy games online easily, we aren' t in 1995 anymore, learn to get credit/debit cards and buy stuff online, well, I guess theyre right saying europe isn' t as advanced... you do know theres this thing called the " internet" and you can buy US games for cheaper than european games on it, right? Ever heard of the " internet" ? Guess not. Cave men.

Why didnt you guys just buy US x360s? All the games will play fine on your HDTV... and you can buy games online easily, we aren' t in 1995 anymore, learn to get credit/debit cards and buy stuff online, well, I guess theyre right saying europe isn' t as advanced... you do know theres this thing called the " internet" and you can buy US games for cheaper than european games on it, right? Ever heard of the " internet" ? Guess not. Cave men.

and the Biggest moron award goes to...Evil Man

Yeah, I' m the moron not paying $93 for my regions games. Yep.

well, I guess theyre right saying europe isn' t as advanced... you do know theres this thing called the " internet" and you can buy US games for cheaper than european games on it, right? Ever heard of the " internet" ? Guess not. Cave men.

Dude, we invented the fucking internet.

What they' re saying is that there are more Xbox 360 and HDTV users in the US than there are in Europe. Why that means they' re releasing the game at a cut price in the US i don' t know, but in general game prices work out about the same because while be pay 17.5% tax on everything, the average person here gets paid more than the aerage American.

This pricing strategy is anal, I should be glad I have the game available for less but I' m just annoyed.

Evil Man, people like you are the reason the world hates Americans.

The cost of living in much of the US is cheaper, especially the midwest. Cheaper Rent, food, etc. And gas is half as expensive.

The cost of living in much of the US is cheaper, especially the midwest. Cheaper Rent, food, etc. And gas is half as expensive.

Good for you, now you know why the average wage there is less then 25 000$ a year.

The average is brought down by immigrants working at ridiculously low wages, you dont have them like we do so it isn' t even a fair comparison. Compare wages in professional jobs and americans typically earn more. Actually $25k is pretty high when its counting millions of immigrants that typically work for minimum wage or less.

Not that it matters, if games were priced based on country' s average wages I' d be importing Xbox360 games from Bolivia at $5 a piece. They just want to rape you on the prices, that' s all.

The average is brought down by immigrants working at ridiculously low wages, you dont have them like we do so it isn' t even a fair comparison. Compare wages in professional jobs and americans typically earn more. Actually $25k is pretty high when its counting millions of immigrants that typically work for minimum wage or less.

In other words, in America the rich are filthy rich and the poor eat bread crumbs. Not only that, the filthy rich gets the immigrants to do the filthy work for them in exchange for those breadcrumbs.

Ps: The only racing game I need is Mario Kart... That is all!

The cost of living in much of the US is cheaper, especially the midwest. Cheaper Rent, food, etc. And gas is half as expensive.

That' s my point fool. You earn less but the cost of living is cheaper. WE earn more but the cost of living is higher. Games cost us what appear to be more but it' s all relative and balances out.

You say that us paying the equivlent of $93 for new games makes us some kind of idiots, but if games cost the equivlent of $50 here (say £30) then we would be able to afford more games per month than Americans (on average).

Test Drive is the exception in that you' re getting it at a cut price and we' re getting stung with what' s basically/actually the RRP of games here for 360. I didn' t expect the game to be any cheaper than the others so while it' s a little frustrating that the US will get it at a cut price surely that means there' ll be more Americans online for me to outdrive and teach which is the right side of the road?!

Videogames arent part of the cost of living.

ORIGINAL: Dionysius
In other words, in America the rich are filthy rich and the poor eat bread crumbs. Not only that, the filthy rich gets the immigrants to do the filthy work for them in exchange for those breadcrumbs.

They still earn more than they do wherever they come from.

Videogames arent part of the cost of living.

course not, games are not entertainment. They are on a higher plane of exsistance which dont affect us at all.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

" The average is brought down by immigrants"

Right, because Canada doesn' t have many immigrants...

Canada has 30 million people, we have 45 million hispanics.

If you had our amount of hispanics your country' s official language would be spanish.

And that is just 1 race.

Don' t be an idiot, the US has ten times the population of Canada, you have to look at percentages.

Not to mention the fact that not even half of those Hispanics are immigrants, most of them were born in America

It' s the same thing, actually it is more likely for a foreign-born hispanic to complete college and have a career than for a US-born hispanic to do so, probably due to the fact that the public high shcool education system in country' s like mexico is superior to the USA' s so the ones that come from latin america are actually smarter than the ones born here.

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

It' s the same thing, actually it is more likely for a foreign-born hispanic to complete college and have a career than for a US-born hispanic to do so, probably due to the fact that the public high shcool education system in country' s like mexico is superior to the USA' s so the ones that come from latin america are actually smarter than the ones born here.

Your point being?.

The point is obvious. If you need me to explain you are retarded.

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

The point is obvious. If you need me to explain you are retarded.

Retorts the guy that comes out with stuff like ' ' why didn' t you guys buy us 360' s' ' ....i' d rather be retarded thanks.....

I guess you are retarded, have fun paying $93 per game dumb shit.

I' m sorry but last time I checked we didn' t use the dollar......and anyway I can afford it and it doesn' t hurt my pocket so .....oh no i' m such a dumb shit what was the point again?.

I can afford to pay $500 per game, but I' m not a fucking idiot now am I?

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

I can afford to pay $500 per game, but I' m not a fucking idiot now am I?

I' m sorry .....what was the point again?.

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

The point is obvious. If you need me to explain you are retarded.

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

I guess you are retarded, have fun paying $93 per game dumb shit.

Are you completely dense? WE GET PAID MORE THAN AMERICANS!!! (on average) and therefore the cost of games evens it' self out against our US counterparts.

Now get back on and STAY on topic.

You really expect this guy to listen?.

ORIGINAL: dasher232


You really expect this guy to listen?.

If not the thread willl only end up locked.

ORIGINAL: Majikdra6on

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

I guess you are retarded, have fun paying $93 per game dumb shit.

Are you completely dense? WE GET PAID MORE THAN AMERICANS!!! (on average) and therefore the cost of games evens it' self out against our US counterparts.

Now get back on and STAY on topic.

You are fucking retarded.

It doesn' t matter what you get payed - you have the option of buying the same games in your same fucking language for cheaper, but you choose to just allow companies to rape you, then you turn around and make posts on the internet complaining about game prices - so obviously you dont get payed enough, or else you wouldn' t be complaining.

We both know you don' t get payed shit, and you need to save money, therefor, grow a fucking brain, get a US x360 and buy the same games for cheaper online. Then you wont have to cry on internet forums about how expensive your shit is.