Harmonix may think that we maligned European gamers are getting a good deal when we're expected to drop £180 for a full Rock Band set, but the people actually selling the games are starting to realize how ridiculous it is to charge more than a Wii for a single videogame and a Singstar microphone.
Play has already sliced £30 off the 'Band in a Box' set and sheared a tenner away from the game disc's asking price, making for a slightly more acceptable total price of £139.99. It's only slightly acceptable, however, because there is no way in an eternity of Satan's buggery that I would be caught dead paying £139.99 for a game.
Waiting this long for a game, only to be expected to pay the kind of money David Bowie would charge for one handjob is not cool, in my book. I'll take the Bowie Shuffle every time.
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12:06 PM on 05.28.2008
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that
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is a work of genius
And I imagine that the rumor about second hand instruments was started because of M$'s cheap ass.
if you look at an index of what it can buy you say like big macs (economists use them all the time)
some of it can be seen to be purchasing power parity diferences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index wikilink
yes we are being ripped off but as money is magic and illusion anyway you cant just do straight conversions
good info power glove.
i want the game but till it gets like real cheap i am not going to buy it.
180 British pounds = $356.28 so basically 2x as stated above.
That is freaking insane, I paid $180 in the USA for Rockband last fall and that required me to drop any kind of rational thinking before I was able to purchase it. I thought it was tough at $180 to create some kind of asinine justification for a plastic Playskool band set.
Also, there was a survey done a little while back that asked the Rock Band audience if lower the standard price of Rock Band to 150 dollars in America was a good idea. So, there is a strong chance that a price drop is in the works.