A begging Australian
I know we are the bane of gaming society, what with our terrible nation wide internet and all. But I have to speak for the land down under when I say 'PLEASE KEEP THE PRICES LOW'
Australians don't get special treatment from Nintendo, so while we pay more for our Wii Points, our Wii Shopping Channel prices aren't adjusted to compensate for this. So if episodes are priced at anything over 1000 Wii Points, it's going to feel like highway robbery. After checking the prices for Sam & Max episodes, I want to be optimistic but when your an Australian gamer you learn to wait until the last minute only to find out that:
a) the price point is overinflated
b) the game will be delayed several months for no reason
c) features (such as online play in EA games) will be cut
d) all of the above
Don't get me wrong, knowing me I will probably still buy each episode (and I plan on picking up Sam & Max Season One when the disc version comes out) but when you guys finally settle on a price, remember that unemployed Aussie student and how he will be struggling to make ends just to play this cool game for attractive people.
Australians don't get special treatment from Nintendo, so while we pay more for our Wii Points, our Wii Shopping Channel prices aren't adjusted to compensate for this. So if episodes are priced at anything over 1000 Wii Points, it's going to feel like highway robbery. After checking the prices for Sam & Max episodes, I want to be optimistic but when your an Australian gamer you learn to wait until the last minute only to find out that:
a) the price point is overinflated
b) the game will be delayed several months for no reason
c) features (such as online play in EA games) will be cut
d) all of the above
Don't get me wrong, knowing me I will probably still buy each episode (and I plan on picking up Sam & Max Season One when the disc version comes out) but when you guys finally settle on a price, remember that unemployed Aussie student and how he will be struggling to make ends just to play this cool game for attractive people.
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Honestly, it's been on the edge for a couple months (and the disc drive is performing worse than ever) so I'm kinda waiting for it to die.
I'm not sure I understand. For us, 100 Wii points = $1 (I think?). How many Australian dollars is 100 Wii points?
The US dollar's pretty weak compared to the Australian dollar right now (I took a vacation to Sydney in September and felt the hurt, believe me!), so it would seem like that should even things out for you, but maybe I'm missing the point...?
According to Wikipedia...
100 Wii Points = AUD 1.50, which is about $1.36 in US dollars.
1) You have to pair friend codes between you and the giftee.
2) You can only gift to people with-in your region.
What I don't know is where Australia fits in. Nintendo treats Australia as apart of Europe for region coding, but I'm not sure if that works for gifting WiiWare/VC titles.
*edit* oh yeah, and I guess the games are good or something, but whatever.
No, that can't possibly be the reason.
Because we have no other choice.. With some of that beautiful "region-encoding" we can't even import games..
The Sam & Max series is amazing value.. about $40 for that much gameplay is really cheap in comparison to what we usually pay.
Well I guess there's actually a good side and a bad side about living in Chile.
On the bad side, retail prices for games are much higher (a $50 game in U.S.A. can cost the equivalent to $90 here) and there's simply no Wii Shop for us.
On the good side, we share coding region with U.S.A., so there's no problems with imports. This means that we get the games faster and cheaper on import stores than on the official ones.
And concerning the Wii Shop, you can access it by just seting U.S.A as your location and buy in U.S.$.
Which is why we're using Steam and other portals to just buy the games online, for half the price! Or there are some great online stores based in Southeast Asia that target Aussie gamers with their cheap prices and legitimate games.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/nintendo_wiiware_launches_in_oz_today.html
Wiiware is in Oz, only a week after the US. Wow. So hopefully those Aussie Wii owners who want SBCG4AP can get it via WiiWare on the same release schedule as the US.
I don't have a Wii, so I'm not so fussed. I'll be getting the PC version.
Who do you think is getting a bum deal?
I didn't really like Smash brothers brawl I'm sad to say. It's cool that Sonic and Snake were in it, but other than that, not much else for me. Same bash the button until you break your thumbs in two gameplay.
I have a PC that can run the widows versions, and I have a wii to get the wiiware version. I'll be getting the wiiware versions of them.
Because all the competition is screwing just as much. No market pressure to bring the price down. Another reason why PC gamers are using online distribution instead of retail purchases.
When I bought Orange Box it cost US$50. It came to A$56 (AFTER currency conversion charges). The stores were selling it for as much as A$110. For the extra $54 you would probably get a case, a disc, and a useless manual.
I don't think I have bought any game retail since Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Add that to the fact that we get games so late and it's no surprise that most gamers i know will download a game before(if) they buy it here, whether to get it on time or just to be sure they aren't wasting that much money.
So we go online and it's only a currency conversion fee - then consoles come up with all this bs with points instead of an actual price and back to the exact same problem and then companies assume their games aren't selling well here and we just keep on getting everything late and overpriced. :mad:
rant rave rant rave rant rave...
leon101: we won't even get a chance to decide that or another month
If you're serious,which I practically know you're not, I'm packing my bags.