Lets do some really crappy maths based on a 22 year old workin a crappy minimum wage job
Australia:
The current minimum wage for full or part time employees of over 21 in Australia is $13.27 AUD per hour
Time taken to afford a Wii = 30 hours
Canada:
minimum hourly wages vary from CAD$6.70 to CAD$8.00
Time taken to afford a wii = between 35 hours and 41 hours
France:
The current (July 2006) minimum wage in France is set at 8.27 (EUR) per hour
Time taken to afford a Wii = 30hours
Ireland:
7.65 per hour for workers with more than two years experience over the age of eighteen.
Time taken to afford a wii = 32hours
Japan:
Minimum wage ranges from 606 yen to 710 yen per hour set on a regional (prefectural) and industry basis.
Time taken to afford a wii = between 35 hours and 41 hours
Netherlands:
1,264 per month (the amount is less for those 22 years old or younger) - if you work on a 40 hour working week and 4 weeks in a month just to make things easy - per hr = 7.90
Time taken to afford a wii = 31 hours
UK:
The current minimum wage in the UK for adults aged 22 or older is £5.05 going up to £5.35 next month
Time taken to afford a wii = 35hours now or 33 hours from october onwards
USA:
The current federal minimum wage is now $5.15 an hour
Time taken to afford a wii = 48hours
Based on this the ones with the most reason to bitch are the Americans, and the ones with the least the Australians and French.
Now I know this is not perfect maths, and that the best way to do this would be to use average wages.. but this is a HELL of a lot better than just converting currencies without taking account ANYTHING about the differences in economy between the various countries, or the fact that the Euro and UK prices contain TAX and the American on does not.