Game pricing inconsistency

The EU isn't part of this situation.

Us in UK have always paid more for vidya. Mainly because the pound is always strong.
You clearly dont understand how exchange rates work correctly.
Take for example say minimum wage in UK is like 12, where in USA it is 20.
Or average rent is is 500, in usa it is 2000, shit like that.
So if you take the % of median earned money, burgers probably pay much less than UK, but that is also small amount in UK.

Doesn't USA have trade taxes?
I forgot what it is called but they call it sales tax or some shit like that.

Mirran. Unrelated but I love when one of you chaps talk about the ZX spectrum like you think anyone outside of your island will know what it is.
Most states do, some don't. Even with most states having them they are applied differently per state. The USA is 50 countries bound by a constitution essentially. Each state is wildly different just backing the same goal (mostly).

Not true. In France it's 80 euros which is about $90 US

cost $90

Brother in Christ, it says 69.99 right there, what the fuck.

Countries that use the euro pay less for their games than the brits do the vat rate is around the same, the reason the game costs 70£ is that gaming companies realized they can make more money because normies are too stupid to know the actual conversion rate for their currency so they don't realize they're actually paying more than everyone else.

you voted for brexit so your goods are more expensive
go to school and pay attention next time

That's before taxation though apparently

For Nintendo it will $90 PLUS TAX.

Even after VAT they are still overcharging by 7 dollars which is strange because the UK is a third world country with much lower wages.

It's 69,99 € for me in finland.

Does that mean if I actually fall for the NordVPN ad I can get lower regional prices?

He's referring to the European price after conversion. It doesn't really count. It's $74.19 in my county because VAT is gay. But free healthcare amirite???????? It's free and nobody pays a shekel!!!!!!!

They also have a literal nanny state and do this kind of thing intentionally thinking that 7 shilling difference will price them out and they'll go work in a coal mine or something.
The UK being a nanny state is decades old already. My parents generation joked about it. People in 1800s joked about it. That place is fucked for you.

All the reparations you owe the world for the awful things you've done to everyone in the past.

That's not true. If it was then all the youtubers would be shilling this. But they aren't. 8f it was true then they would absolutely be shilling the fully taxed prices and not the pre taxed price

That actually used to work, but steam patched it.

Why are you lying? I've just checked and it's €80

Bro, the taxes VARY PER STATE, of course youtubers aren't going on a per state basis and give you the price.
Do you even know how the states work in burgerland?

it's not only UK but a lot of other european countries too
just check prices on steamdb to see how much of a ripoff you get compared to other countries (even with tax applied)

ZX spectrum

What were you playing when spectrum released?
pic related is the 1st game I remember playing, which was on the spectrum but I was born in 85 and we were poor so always at least a generation behind until I got to my teenage years and earned my own money.
I played spectrum, atari, commedore and amiga. think I played amstrad as well but was too young to remember. Spectrum and commedore games used to come on cassette and there was a tape player hardware and keyboard and joystick.
Syndicate and hunter i played on amiga, with syndicate still being one of my all time fav games and hunter being the reason I like open world games to this day.
What you probably dont realize is that UK is the foundation of vidya and vidya tech. Most of the best games ever created were from british devs, though japan eventually took over an USA caught up when the UK vidya industry (bubble I suppose) started to slow.
Still R* is a british dev team, originally.

There's no fucking way a YouTube shill screeching about the price of games would include the tax price for his state.

you guys what's up, it's me your boy. So today I'm gonna shi how high switch 2 games will cost. 90 fucking bucks!!! With tax in California which is where I live that means I have to pay a hundred and ten dollars to play a fucking game. Don't do it fans. Wait for the Xbox handheld. The games will cost the same but I'm not gonna mention that, or that Microsoft is paying me to shit on nintendo so you wait for their inferior handheld to be released. After it comes out they'll pay me more shill money to big up their piece of crap and get you to buy it

Why is assassins creed shadows base game on PS5 £70 in the UK (which converts to $90 US) when it's only $70 in the US.

Does it matter?

I don't even know buddy, probably nothing since I wasn't born.
This is what I'm talking about, you lot are charmingly pleasant in how ignorant you are to off shore interests.
The speccie didn't release outside the UK bud. Literally no one outside your island knows what it is.

I think this is more of a foreigner issue. I saw so many people talking about how it was unfair how cheap the switch was in the UK because they just assume the pound is equivalent to the dollar and euro, this foreign perception of the pound being weak and basically the same value leads to peer pricing from certain companies. MSRP on games have been too expensive in the UK for over a decade. New games already cost 60-70 pounds officially which is 80-90 dollars and have done so for many years yet I've never paid that much for any game and barely anyone else has, the real price of games remains around 40-45 pounds. Every new gen they increase the fake MSRP to a new ridiculous level that is further from reality.

It's the same price though. Am I retarded?

Its a merry go round. I remember the SNES era having wildly inconsistent pricing. My mome (bless her heart) would only ever buy me cheaper games for christmas/bday so I was aware of the pricing chicanery back then.
My game collection was like a ripoff version of my friends.

OP is just dumb in a classical sense. Whatever time it is locally for OP, he probably thinks it is that time for everyone on earth.
If someone explained the seasons on the southern hemisphere to him he would implode in confusion.

Being an ignorant pleb doesnt mean people dont know one of the innovative consoles in vidya exist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_games
You think there was like 5 games for it or some shit.

Retarded frogs were like "70 is 70, lmao!". This is the shit you have to put up with.
Good thing I don't buy Ubisoft games.

No, I know there were thousands, and that enthusiasts still make games for it. It is HUGE on your island and I love that.
I even got into a few speccy youtube channels because hearing old 50 year old brits talk about sub8 bit graphics games are comfy.

most woman agree, your small white penis doesn't matter

I feel like the MSRP actually means something in the US so they get mad at price changes but in the UK price changes feel more like a failed wish from the publishers that immediately disintegrates upon hitting reality. I don't even know the official MSRP of games anymore because it's all bullshit.

Nintendo is the one case where it sticks, which is why their pricing is ridiculous, it's an extra bump ontop of a fake price nobody pays.

I feel like the MSRP actually means something in the US

It used to. Something changed and the cultural norm of having an MSRP is gone now.
Magic the gathering? Comic books? Literally no MSRP now and the industries have essentially collapsed.

Gatekeeping price was actually a good economic principle for long term stability, and that mindset seem to be "backwards" in the US now.
It is a fire sale on culture rn. Everything must go!

The MTG one is funny because they did it 100% so that they could further skirt gambling laws they thought would be coming down the pipeline with the lootbox fiasco in gaming.