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get a gf (lol , at my own jokes)
Damn those are crazy prices, here it was jacked up also, but not that much. Does the situation improved? For example, now the prices for both consoles (that matter I am out of Nintendo trolling warning) USD price + 21% VAT, games are more expensive around 80 USD for 60 USD game and well for PS5, it's Around 95-105 USD standard edition which is major bullshit, main reason why am I waiting for buying it down the line, it's not that I cannot afford it, it's just does not feel as a price for game, feels like for some physical thing. At least in my brain.
So are you doing better with prices down there, right now?
get a gf (lol , at my own jokes)
Yes Sony has been great around here monitoring the market since PS4. Actually physical copies can be pretty cheaper than US prices here, like finding The Division day -14 (yes, two weeks before release) for only 18 OMR ($46.8). Those are all before VAT. Now since April 16th we have 5% VAT for the first time. We were virgins.
Gave you a like because I think you're a Manchester United fan, or
Very nice VAT sucks, but hey free health-care and all that stuff : )Yes Sony has been great around here monitoring the market since PS4. Actually physical copies can be pretty cheaper than US prices here, like finding The Division day -14 (yes, two weeks before release) for only 18 OMR ($46.8). Those are all before VAT. Now since April 16th we have 5% VAT for the first time. We were virgins.
yes,.
are you on coke? lol.
I never thought about that with sports games but you are absolutely right.Yeah, growing up I really made my decision based on how long a game would last me.
Turned me into a massive sports gaming fan because you could literally play FIFA for years. Once I got into piracy with the PS1 modchip the length of games was less important to me, now that I have more money for games than time to play them I appreciate it when games are a little shorter.
What you are saying still holds true for the vast majority of the gaming audience though.
At the top of the charts you will find FIFA/Madden/2K, CoD, AssCreed, GTA and other games that are packed with content and have a high replay value.
Every time I read "games are too long" or "open world fatigue" or "bloated" on forums I have to cringe a little because those complaints are made by people who buy lots of games per year.
Damn those are crazy prices, here it was jacked up also, but not that much. Does the situation improved? For example, now the prices for both consoles (that matter I am out of Nintendo trolling warning) USD price + 21% VAT, games are more expensive around 80 USD for 60 USD game and well for PS5, it's Around 95-105 USD standard edition which is major bullshit, main reason why am I waiting for buying it down the line, it's not that I cannot afford it, it's just does not feel as a price for game, feels like for some physical thing. At least in my brain.
So are you doing better with prices down there, right now?
Great thread, indeed, and we really need it. People need to be grateful when they're lucky enough to buy whatever game they want.
I was/am from a higher middle class so got most of the games/consoles I wanted, but not spoiled at all. Also we suffered from crazy gray market prices. Atari 2600 and PS1 both were sold at $2600 (1000 OMR) early on and only the rich would buy them. Don't remember Nintendo Family Game price on early stages (NES) but I think it wasn't that expensive. Sega MegaDrive when we bought it was around 350 OMR ($910). PS2 I bought it in the US then shamefully modified it when got back home to run pirated games for $2.6-1.3 each (same with PS1), 1-0.5 OMR. Couldn't buy Sega Saturn because it was so static at around 600 OMR ($1560) at its cheapest point. Nintendo N64 was pricey as well but don't remember how much.
PS3 was around 700 OMR for the higher model ($1820) but got it when it became 350 OMR ($910) late 2007. Got my PS4 with the official price for the first time for 181 OMR ($470) then PS5 now at 215 OMR ($559). So you can see that the gray market made you feel poor, and that hurts console sales as well as PS1 would've sold at least 200M.
But it was Atari 2600 during late 1980's, then Family Computer (NES) early 1990's then Megadrive around 1993, PS1 around 1997, PS2 in 2002, PS3 2007, PS4 2013, PS5 2020.
Also bought Sega Game Gear back in the 1990's.
Brasil?I'm from Brazil, so my story is mostly similar to other kids: Started with the PS1 at the new year's eve in 2001, found out about the PS2 in 2002-2003 and asked my parents for it, but they kept denying it because it was very expensive (it was an equivalent to like 1000 dollars), its not that they couldn't afford it , but it was just your "too expensive to waste money", in the meantime I got a PC (because it was more useful), had also lots of fun of PS2 games that had a PC port, but sadly by that point the platform was in a crisis, so lots of cool stuff kept skipping it in favor of consoles. Finally got it in december 2006 with Burnout Revenge, a franchise that I always wanted to play for what would have been like 350 dollars at this point, and had lots and lots of fun and overnights.
Three years later i've got an Xbox 360 at the same price thanks to a dolar devaluation and the country in a great shape, with my allowance savings and a big extra i've got after passing the school year. Today consoles are still expensive but aren't considered an very very hard stuff to buy because you can do in interest free installments up to 10-12 months, before that, most people like me were a generation behind for the whole duration.
The PS3 was released in the grey market here for R$8.000,00, the same time i've bought my PS2, it was the equivalent of like 3.7k dollars, not joking, the X360 came here at the same week officially for half of the PS3 price. Most people got the X360 because it was cheaper and could run pirate games since its early days, Microsoft was also the first to come here officially (before that it was all representations which were dead by early 2000s) and were the first to bring dubbed games with Viva Pinata and Halo 3, their prices for games and consoles were lower than anyone else too.
Yeah, every time I buy a new console I still feel the same. Really taught me how to cherish and take care of everything I have.Damn bro. The feels.
The 90s recession hit our family, from then on had to work for the games/consoles together with my younger brother.
We picked berries to get a PS1 (+ SNES trade in)
Had a friendly small game shop that we would visit daily.
The owner would hide good/newer games under the counter for us, and kept trade in fees minimal as we were in there all the time.
Thanks to this shop we could go through almost whole PAL library of games for SNES & PS1.
Now I can afford all the gaming things I want.
I still buy my games physical prob due to the fond memories of trading games... but today I just give them to family and friends when im done with the game.
I just pictured two kids walking into a game store with a couple pails of berries each, handing them to the owner who pulls a game out from under the counters. When you leave he unzips his human suit and starts eating berries. Turns out he's actually a bear.