Gaming The price of wii in sweden....

[adgloride]

Is downloading copyrighted material in sweden still legal? Maybe nintendo have charged the swedes more because they know they'll download the games

 

[OrR]

Edit: One reason we have to pay more than the US is that taxes are already included in our prices whereas they are added at purchase in the US and seem to be quite different from state to state. Another reason is that the localization costs are quite high with the many languages we speak over here. And the third reason is that NoE is greedy.
Yes but if I import Wii games and pay shipping (10$), taxes and customs for them (19% extra) they are still cheaper than here in germany (50$ versus 60€ (=79$)) wtf is up with that?

Greed is certainly a reason. 60€ for Wii games is too much. Luckily I don't pay that much at my local shop.

But if you had read my post, you'd also have noticed that I talked about localization costs. Don't forget the USK seal.

 

[Mican]

Unfortunately, many countries around the world still did not accept PAL as their TV broadcast system, so import a NTSC Wii from the US or Japan is not very good idea.

 

[OrR]

Especially since the Wii uses region locking...

 

[cenotaph]

Is downloading copyrighted material in sweden still legal? Maybe nintendo have charged the swedes more because they know they'll download the games

No more, but I suppose this country's earned a reputation for housing pirates (go figure).

 

[Frz]

Unfortunately, many countries around the world still did not accept PAL as their TV broadcast system, so import a NTSC Wii from the US or Japan is not very good idea.

Nearly every modern TV (atleast every modern TV that you can buy in germany) supports NTSC on the AV-INs so it doesn't really matter (*hugs the us wii hooked up to the pal tv*)
(And why accept PAL as TV broadcast system, as far as I can see pal is inferior to NTSC in nearly every aspect)

 

[OrR]

Wasn't it the other way around? IIRC, pal has a higher resolution.

 

[norsken]

The price is due to the "moms" (VAT) that we have in Sweden, which is at 25%.

The VAT adds 25%, which makes the price $312.5 (if the price is $250 from the beginning) which is part of the deal. How they can add another $80 after that I simply fail to see. Is the "Wii Sports" included with consoles worldwide, or is that some Swedish bs?

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Edit: One reason we have to pay more than the US is that taxes are already included in our prices whereas they are added at purchase in the US and seem to be quite different from state to state. Another reason is that the localization costs are quite high with the many languages we speak over here. And the third reason is that NoE is greedy. wink2.gif

 

[Fat D]

the conversion is usually a direct $/€ one (250€, but including VAT, in Germany). If we suppose that in sweden, the VAT is not included, we can use your in-between result *1.3 and we get... $400

 

[Houou]

Hi just wanted to say that at a certain point, PS2 games here in Israel were over 90$ (over nine thousand might actually fit here).

And that's for ANY new PS2 games, including crappy film tie-ins. What the hell.

 

[Vater Unser]

The price is due to the "moms" (VAT) that we have in Sweden, which is at 25%.

The VAT adds 25%, which makes the price $312.5 (if the price is $250 from the beginning) which is part of the deal. How they can add another $80 after that I simply fail to see.
25% is the highest VAT in europe, but other european countries have a VAT of 19%, and they still don't pay any more than 250€

QUOTEIs the "Wii Sports" included with consoles worldwide, or is that some Swedish bs?

it's not included in Japan, but everywhere else