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Not in the UK you don't. All budget titles such as bustamove etc are released at £19.99 max. Many blockbuster stores here put a standard retail price of £12.99 on these from new.
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Hmm, you should come visit Greece. Same prices everywhere (with very few exceptions...). Few days ago, I saw Broken Sword:Sleeping dragon at 60+€, more than GT4, which is 59€. Things should change here...
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The same can be said about music, the price of recording the album/video can be drastically different but at the end of the day the more popular ranges will always sell more. Hence why GT4 took years to make and as you stated Bust - A Move was simply a arcade conversion. It'l never sell nowhere near as much as GT4 hence less profit.
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OK, but what about selling it at a lesser price, therefore raising the sales more? This result at more customers, which can have many benefits other than the actual monetary profits. (More publicity, the-neighour's-kid-has-it, why-don't-we?, etc.)
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The PC takes a lot less time to program for than a Console, with regards to cross console platform prices they're generally the same in the UK.
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Didn't know that thing about programming...Thanks!
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Take an RPG for example, Square-enix games created in Japan, then need to have all speech and ingame text translated and rerecorded (FFX for example). As for most other games yet again I can't see much price difference from buying the Jap region from LIK-SANG, the USA Region or the PAL.
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Yes, that is logical, but I wasn't referring to that difference in territories.
Look at the prices within EU, which the system is PAL. I bought Silent Hill 4 from play.com for 45€ and in Greece it was selling for 60€. I'm talking about that difference. I mean with the same amount of money you buy 3 games in Greece, whilst in UK you buy 4.
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The main point is that in your previous post you claimed
simply because it can't be backed up at the moment. Thats what annoys me  |
I can see how that might have sounded, but I didn't want to sound in that way. The game by itself its fantastic, so it would sell like crazy whether it can be copied or not, so eitherway it will be the biggest commercial hit of PS2(at least in my opinion) And it is worth it 100%.
I would like to see the faces of all "retail pirates" around the globe that cannot sell NOT EVEN ONE copy of GT4! And believe me, the "profit" loss for those "poor" pirates is huge!!!