Pricing that doesn't make any sense
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Games workshop merchandise.
Curse them for making one of the greatest tabletop games ever and stealing my money.
Curse them for making one of the greatest tabletop games ever and stealing my money.
The pricing for music. For instance, most games today have a longer score than actual music cd's do and in perspective you pay near to nothing for the music when buying a videogame.
McDonalds
Small fries costs £0.89, weighs 80g. Cost per gram = 1.1125p
Medium fries costs £0.99, weighs 114g. Cost per gram = 0.8684p
Large fries costs £1.39, weighs 160g. Cost per gram = 0.86875p
The trend in McDonalds is, the more you buy the better the value. But for fries, the value decreases when upgrading from a medium to a large. Madness....
*weights are according to the official McDonalds Quality Reference Guide.
Small fries costs £0.89, weighs 80g. Cost per gram = 1.1125p
Medium fries costs £0.99, weighs 114g. Cost per gram = 0.8684p
Large fries costs £1.39, weighs 160g. Cost per gram = 0.86875p
The trend in McDonalds is, the more you buy the better the value. But for fries, the value decreases when upgrading from a medium to a large. Madness....
*weights are according to the official McDonalds Quality Reference Guide.
Allow me to clarify a couple of things before moving on in this thread.
People seem to think that I am either crazy or just making up prices.
The Sony PSP Go in Sweden costs 270 EUR while the Xbox 360 Elite (HDMI) Value Pack comes with 2 games and costs 250 EUR. The PSP Go is thus 20 Euros more than the Xbox.
Claiming that the PSP Gos price makes sense because it is "an advanced piece of technology with stuff crammed in to a small space" is not a valid reason, quite simply because the PSP 3000 is just as powerful and costs 100 EUR less than the PSP Go.
And how is the PSP - which is essentially a portable PS2 an "advanced piece of technology" anyway?
The DSi is not advanced either. The absymal-megapixel-camera on it is laughable and the technology inside of it is damned near identical to the DS-Lite which is (and in some ways, more powerful) 75 EUR cheaper than the DSi.
Also the DSi in Sweden is 215 EUR while the Nintendo Wii is 199 EUR.
Almost all games on STEAM in Europe cost more than the hard-copy counterpart when Valve decided to go from 1 USD = 1 EUR.
The iPhone 3GS in Sweden costs around 750 EUR ($1000 USD) which is the equal price of a decent Laptop computer.
I recall when the original iPhone was first launched in Europe it costs 899 EUR...
People seem to think that I am either crazy or just making up prices.
The Sony PSP Go in Sweden costs 270 EUR while the Xbox 360 Elite (HDMI) Value Pack comes with 2 games and costs 250 EUR. The PSP Go is thus 20 Euros more than the Xbox.
Claiming that the PSP Gos price makes sense because it is "an advanced piece of technology with stuff crammed in to a small space" is not a valid reason, quite simply because the PSP 3000 is just as powerful and costs 100 EUR less than the PSP Go.
And how is the PSP - which is essentially a portable PS2 an "advanced piece of technology" anyway?
The DSi is not advanced either. The absymal-megapixel-camera on it is laughable and the technology inside of it is damned near identical to the DS-Lite which is (and in some ways, more powerful) 75 EUR cheaper than the DSi.
Also the DSi in Sweden is 215 EUR while the Nintendo Wii is 199 EUR.
Almost all games on STEAM in Europe cost more than the hard-copy counterpart when Valve decided to go from 1 USD = 1 EUR.
The iPhone 3GS in Sweden costs around 750 EUR ($1000 USD) which is the equal price of a decent Laptop computer.
I recall when the original iPhone was first launched in Europe it costs 899 EUR...
Downloadable content such as movies and music cost more because it's so easy to illegally download such items using torrent websites that companies have to charge more to actually make money. as for portable crap, yeah we keep buying it so they keep selling them at that price. when demand goes down, so will the price...its common economics iphones are HUGEEEE everyone knows atleast 3 people with an iphone so yeah if they can make money off of it they'll make money off of it its capitalism at its best
The pricing of video games in general. I appreciate that quite a bit of money goes into some of the more high profile releases, but if we only payed for the cost of manufacturing, shipping, and so on, games would cost about a dollar.
All the portable things costing similar to the full sized make PERFECT sense.
Squeezing all that technology into a small place can't be easy, if i told you to squeeze your computer into a space the size of a phone, how easy would that be.
The rest i pretty much agree with
Squeezing all that technology into a small place can't be easy, if i told you to squeeze your computer into a space the size of a phone, how easy would that be.
The rest i pretty much agree with