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Europe pays more than double for Resident Evil 4 Wii edition

As usual, Europeans arrive late to the party. It has been released for $30 in America, which seemed like a fair price. Lets do some simple math here :

30 U.S. dollars = 22.2882615 Euros

45 Euros = 60.57 U.S. dollars

That's more than double the U.S. price!

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kingofps3 - 917 days 17 hours ago

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1 - lol

Move to North America. There, that solves it. (Being silly here, obviously)

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tonsoffun - 917 days 14 hours ago

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Hell, Europe always get screwed on the price.

It is an unfortunate fact of life over here.

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ITR - 917 days 11 hours ago

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What's up with the higher price for games and consoles in Europe??

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mbmonk - 917 days 11 hours ago

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Possibly because it's the wealthiest continent in the world. Or they have some insane taxes. I still think they are getting f-ed though.

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DarkJedi - 917 days 1 hour ago

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Now that's not entirely true. The US Defence budget (estimated at almost $440 billion in 2007) is more than the entire budget for the UK over 2005-2006 (approximately $210 billion over the two years).

We do however have the highest taxes (17.5% on sales), a ridiculously high import tax, and we get screwed every year by the Bank Of England on base rate of interest which forces inflation even higher year on year.

Economics lesson over. End result: GB get's screwed on hardware and software prices every single time, and it won't change ever.

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mbmonk - 910 days 23 hours ago

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Well I said continent not country. So I don't need a economics lesson. Comparing defense budgets still doesn't prove your point.

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sidar - 917 days 9 hours ago

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Almost every game has to be translated intoo german/spanish/french or what not!
taxes aint low too.
and its not only this game, some of you complain about the price of consoles...well in EU we pay way more then you americans, but i guess the income are way different?

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julianwan - 917 days 3 hours ago

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socialized medicine is worth living in europe woo hooo i'm too liberal ffor my shirttt

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paul_war - 917 days 2 hours ago

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£30 in the UK, that’s $60+. But then I believe wages are generally higher here, minimum wage is about £5.50 ($11) per hour.

But then saying that my PS3 set me back £425 ($850) so I don't know why all you Yanks are complaining, $600 is a bargain!

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sfinXters - 917 days 1 hour ago

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Yeah, this sucks.

Hopefully all the region limits will disappear sometime and then the price should normalize, because everybody would buy from a differenct continent.

Ofcourse, the companies might not remove the regions just to screw us some more.

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Odiah - 917 days 1 hour ago

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9 - Who cares

We're richer here.

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ItsDubC - 916 days 23 hours ago

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Even if europeans make more on average than americans, I still don't see why it's fair to charge DOUBLE the price for this game in EU. It seems like it would only hurt sales.

I'm american and the $30 pricetag of this game makes it that much more of an impulse-buy opportunity. Even if this game wasn't one of the greatest of all time as many have said, I still would have been very much inclined to buy it because of the pricetag.

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Dick Jones - 916 days 19 hours ago

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11 - Its payback for all the wars and bloodshed you've started.

Now play nice for the next 100 years and we'll think about lowering your sin tax on videogames.

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