i can see the kids in schools now... you have a 360? your family is so poor you can' t even afford a ps3... you cheap, poor bastard etc etc... kids can be so cruel...

Kenny can' t afford a PS3. Cartman and Stan can though and Kyle would probably get one if he wasn' t a Jew.

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Uumai you think that 800-930$ is an okay price?

No,im not gonna get a ps3 until 2008 now,IF i can see a reason to get it then.

i dont have to pay 800-930$, for me is like £425 and im ok with that, but i can' t afford it right now. but if i had the money i' d have no qualms with it.

I understand you not wanting a ps3 for some time... arent like all the big games, mgs 4, ffxiii (probably more but i' m currently drawing a blank) come out around that year.. But you are already happy with your 360 so it' s great, so i' d imagine your not in a rush for a new console..

So is that before taxes or after taxes? Or don' t you have a sales tax? I know the taxes are extreme over there. Where I live the sales tax is 6% so my 360 actually cost $424.

Yes,Scandinavia or atleast Sweden and Norway has the highest taxes in the world.
But Denmark gonna have the same price and has lower taxes.

It' s something they done to fuck us up.
Nintendo got sued for making some games cost twice as much in Scandinavia as in UK.

I hope sony get sued now...

Here in Australia they are only selling the Top end version and it goes for AUS$999 which is around US$750, not bad compared to some countries. For comparison the 360 goes for around AUS$650 which is around US$450. So the ps3 we see a mark up of up to US$150 or 20% compared to xbox' s markup of US$50 or 12.5%. I' d like to see others comparitive calculations on price mark up compared to the Recommended US prices, it be interesting to see the premium one must pay to own a ps3 in countries other then the US.

To me the higher premium screams lower then expected number of units available at launch, and sony merely recouping the high losses in less important countries (like Australia which usually gets things last). That estimate of sony only able to make 3 million ps3 by the end of the financial year, instead of the 6 million they projected, the fact that with two & a half months left till launch (kaz stated) they still have not started manufacturing ps3s, problems with low cell yields and sony ' hogging' all the blu ray diodes for ps3 points heavily to a severe ps3 shortage. A world wide launch seems a more difficult promise for sony to achieve.

They sell it for $800-900 in europe cause you' re retarded enough to buy it, Sony knows the US isnt full of dumb fucks like europe so they give us the lowest prices.

Fact of the matter is that both Japan and US are the 2 key markets that win the ' console wars' , the other markets are just icing on the cake. We can wish these multinational companies cared equally about each market, but then we would be kidding ourselves. Europe and the rest of the world simply take units away from more important markets (ie US & Japan), and thus a ' premium' must be paid, or at least thats how i see it (i usually takes up to 6 months after US launch before we see our first console, though 360 came a little sooner at about 4 or so months).

One thing i' m not to sure about is the US$600 include taxes or is it before taxes. COnsidering the up US$300 sony will lose per console sold i would be surprised if the price includes taxes, but stranger things could happen. Does anyone know for certain?

I doubt something as big as PS3 would be advertised as a set price including taxes since there are hundreds of cities with different tax rates (many cities in the US dont even have any sales taxes at all), not to mention I' ve never seen anything besides food having a price that included taxes.

They sell it for $800-900 in europe cause you' re retarded enough to buy it, Sony knows the US isnt full of dumb fucks like europe so they give us the lowest prices.

He' s right - in US people want value for money and care for their prices a lot (even if they can afford something) - Europeans didn' t force Sony or Nintendo to make their prices reasonable - we buy that shit anyway.We do have huge taxes,but there are ways to make price at least a little bit more user friendly.

I never have to include taxs over here, becuase they are added in to the total price of the product for you, on everything.

I think paying taxes at the till is a litte stupid, as you never know how much excatly you have to spend. I dont know, maybe I am wrong, As I said, I never used them.

I think paying taxes at the till is a litte stupid, as you never know how much excatly you have to spend. I dont know, maybe I am wrong, As I said, I never used them.

It' s not that complicated to remember your city' s tax rate. I add 8% to whatever I buy, if it costs $10 I' m paying $10.80

Evil man stfu.

We here in Scandinavia has more money then the avg guy in USA.
Thus they give us a higher price.

Look what happend with 360,it went on ebay with price tags up to 800-2000$ even for a core.
And you dumb noobs bought it over there.

So stfu you fuck-face.

yeah it' s fucked up - I don' t get it why some people pay so much for a system to get it month earlier.

Yes,and those was Americans,so he can fuck himself.

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They sell it for $800-900 in europe cause you' re retarded enough to buy it, Sony knows the US isnt full of dumb fucks like europe so they give us the lowest prices.

He' s right - in US people want value for money and care for their prices a lot (even if they can afford something) - Europeans didn' t force Sony or Nintendo to make their prices reasonable - we buy that shit anyway.We do have huge taxes,but there are ways to make price at least a little bit more user friendly.

No, he' s not right. We' ve been here before.

It works out the same expenditure, and would be roughly the same percentage out of the average wages.

American' s on average earn less but things cost less. We earn more but things cost more. If i translated the US price ($599) into GBP then it works out at £314 which is just over a weeks wage.

I hate my 48% tax, and my 25% sales tax, 300% tax on cars. Why dont you just take my life denmark! argghh time for an armed revolution! Who has the fucking guns?

Let' s kill some commies!!!