On November 22 2013 13:21 DropBear wrote: US - $399 EU - €399 UK - £349 Aus - $549
Taking exchange rates into account its far cheaper in america than anywhere else. Is there a reason for this? Are americans getting a special price or are we being shafted as usual
On November 22 2013 13:21 DropBear wrote: US - $399 EU - €399 UK - £349 Aus - $549
Taking exchange rates into account its far cheaper in america than anywhere else. Is there a reason for this? Are americans getting a special price or are we being shafted as usual
399$ before tax vs 399euros tax included I guess ?
Aus and UK usually get shafted anyway though.
On the other hand paying game on steam (or other digital material), due to no tax, it's just way better to pay 60$ rather than 60euros.
Edit: For example if I command on Amazon here is the final price I pay (in canadian $):
On November 22 2013 13:21 DropBear wrote: US - $399 EU - €399 UK - £349 Aus - $549
Taking exchange rates into account its far cheaper in america than anywhere else. Is there a reason for this? Are americans getting a special price or are we being shafted as usual
Based on Xbox 360 sales, I would bet that the US is the most contested market. (I'm having trouble finding the actual shipment information per country, but I've always been told that the 360 wasn't that big elsewhere in the world.)
Another factor to consider is difference in purchasing power between countries. (e.g., Big Mac Index, where a Big Mac in AU is $4.94 (equiv USD) when it's only $4.20 in US)
Size of market is probably also weighing against AU quite a bit.
On November 23 2013 14:05 Azza wrote: Anyone know anything about the Chinese market for ps4 and xbox one.
I'm afraid to purchase anything like that here. Mostly because I expect all the games to be in Chinese.
PS4/ Xbox One will not be released in mainland China just as PS3 and 360 didnt. But they will be release in HongKong/Macau(Asian release in December) and you can easily find those consoles in any big cities in mainland China as well cos they got imported from HK/Japan.
Feel free to buy games on taobao since most of them are release for HongKong which will have English available. For example if you buy a HongKong version of Killzone, the game will be in English if your system language is English or the game will be in traditional Chinese if you system language is Chinese.
You should exclusively buy your consoles/games on taobao for two reasons: They are cheaper than actual shop, they got things just within a day it got release in HK.
Speaking from 6 years of using buy PS3 in Shanghai - China. Just PM if you need recommendation for some good taobao stores.
Wont they? Didn't china lift a ban on foreign consoles? Granted i don't expect it soon as Asian markets outside of japan get janky quick so the return on software and peripheral purchases isn't quite US or EU countries but BRIC counties are still large enough markets for limited releases.
After announcing that the PlayStation 4 moved over a million units in its first 24 hours on sale, Sony has revealed the system's total figures as of December 1st. 2.1 million PS4 consoles were sold worldwide since the initial launch in the US on November 15th, of which 700,000 came from Europe and Australasia after two days of availability.
In a press release, Sony Computer Entertainment president and group CEO Andrew House said that “PS4 delivered the best launch in PlayStation history," while claiming that "demand remains incredibly strong and continues to overwhelm the supply worldwide." Microsoft has yet to offer a specific November sales figure for the Xbox One, which launched a week after the PS4 in the US and matched Sony's achievement of selling 1 million units in 24 hours.
On December 04 2013 06:32 Brett wrote: Their sales would have been higher too if they had stock to satisfy demand... The second shipment is sold out here in Aus, and it hasn't even arrived.
same here pretty much. my brother tried to buy one, 3 different shops, all basicly told him " yeeaah no, maybe in february"
On December 04 2013 06:32 Brett wrote: Their sales would have been higher too if they had stock to satisfy demand... The second shipment is sold out here in Aus, and it hasn't even arrived.
same here pretty much. my brother tried to buy one, 3 different shops, all basicly told him " yeeaah no, maybe in february"
In general you find sold out there in less popular stores for games. In the US just go one of the smaller cities and go to a target there you'll find a few xb1 and ps4's. Target is the kind a store that gets significant stock because they take pre-orders but no one really does that for target, it also doesn't get as much traffic though it's game section. Places that sell a bunch of games like gamestop is a "maybe in february" walmart as well. It's just about looking for the store that's not the top sellers but still a big enough brick and motor that they get significant stock.
You can walk into any store here that stocks video game consoles and buy an xbox one. You simply can't get PS4's. Popular retailers here such as EBGames (Aussie division of Gamestop) and JB Hi Fi have/had pre-orders which exhausted not only the first shipment of the consoles, but also their second alotment. These big chains are now advertising their third shipments for 'early 2014':
My local EB and JB Hi Fi have Xbox posters and other stuff ALL OVER the shops, and nothing but a small section for PS4 games because they have no stock (and are probably sick of fielding questions about where their stock is and why they aren't selling them).
Less popular retailers such as Target, Big W, Harvey Norman and Dick Smith have also sold through their pre-orders.
Some major retailers in Australia didn't even get stock (K-mart)...
This isn't a matter of people not looking in the right places. It's a combination of a lack of stock and insane demand that Sony couldn't deliver on (and really could have only hoped for).
Given that BMDP appears to be from Germany, and looking at reports and videos like this:
On December 04 2013 13:10 NeuroticPsychosis wrote: I don't like how they tried to make the controller look like the Xbox controller...~.~
But this looks awesome I'm definitely Sony fanboy
lolwut. The DualShock 4 looks like the DualShock 3. The differences is that the joysticks now have grips, a touchpad, improved triggers, lowered square, triangle, etc buttons, etc...
On December 04 2013 13:10 NeuroticPsychosis wrote: I don't like how they tried to make the controller look like the Xbox controller...~.~
But this looks awesome I'm definitely Sony fanboy
lolwut. The DualShock 4 looks like the DualShock 3. The differences is that the joysticks now have grips, a touchpad, improved triggers, lowered square, triangle, etc buttons, etc...
The moved the analog sticks closer to the buttons so the thumbs are more parallel rather than making a triangle when reaching for the analog sticks what the 360 controller was designed for, They also flattened the controller and made bit a rounder giving it a similar feel to the xbox controller so you don't have to grip the controller, just lay it in your hands, they also switched from convex to concave tops on the analogue sticks, what the 360 controller already had.
In other words they added ergonomic considerations that were already built into the design on the xbox controller. The comments about they made it more like the xbox controller is because the xbox controller was vastly more ergonomic when having to use 2 analog sticks, which most games now of days use at primary movement and camera.
I picked up a DS4 controller the other day while the GF was dragging me around a shopping centre. Having had every single PS console since their release, the DS4 is by far the most comfortable one that I've held (albeit only for a few minutes)
Amazon probably has a large shipment right now, but instead of making it all available, they're trickling their stock into the store every ~20 minutes. Got my PS4 using an auto refresher to watch the PS4 page. Took about an hour of trying but I finally got it.
Contrast is a really excellent use of 4-5 hours if you have PS+. Resogun is a better made game, but I found this more interesting.
A lot of the platforming is pretty basic (especially at the end) so it's getting beat up for that, but it's really all about the music/art style/story/periphery. The portions that do nail the mechanics do an amazing job. Would've been nice to have more, but still. People were willing to shlop through Bioshock's horrible gunplay for the atmosphere and story, I think something similar is in order here.
The story is interesting but there's a lot more I hope they go into in the future. Some dialogue is cheesy, but it goes with the vaudeville theme.
They patched, but bugs are still an issue. I had 2 annoying ones with a box not respawning and another object getting stuck.
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