Comments on: Declining dollar makes importing (relatively) cheaper

By: Pedro Silva

Pedro Silva — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:04:32 +0000

^ awwww, and I thought I was old for having used Lik-Sang!

By: HCK

HCK — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:30:10 +0000

Man, when I STARTED buying import games wayyyyyy back in 1995 PC Engine games cost around US$75 each and Super Famicom games were US$100+ each usually! It’s only since the internet and more people having access to places like NCS and the like that the price has come down a bit. Back in the day there were really only two or three places to get games, NCS (and they didn’t have a website - you had to call), Buy Rite (now out of business), and Tommo (I have no idea).

Now, class, turn in your books to page 48….

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:40:18 +0000

Well yeah the decline has made it great for us Europeans to import, so taking advantage of that situation..

I noticed even for me (as a norwegian) the british pounds has lost its worth more..

By: Shin

Shin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:46:13 +0000

Pedro Silva>awesome choice on ToD DC LE, really great game.

well importing is all really worth is for us in europe… for example, la psp game is 39.99$ in the us (25€) our psp games are 50€ :|
even patapon which is 12€ in the us is 40€ in here…

DS lite ? 129.99$ are 85€… our DS is stuck at 149€ :x

60Gb PS3 (software backward compatibility) was at 800$ at launch in Europe.

you have to either be ridiculously rich to play video games in europe, or play 3games a year.

(I’m importing a PS3MGS4 american pack on june 12th, that’s for sure.)

By: Boycott Gamestop

Boycott Gamestop — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:00:51 +0000

“Makes relatively importing cheaper”?

Engrish?

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:40:58 +0000

Yesasia raised their price about 10% a month or two ago, and they’re still rather competitive. Eg, Jpn Wii console was $299 w/ free shipping, now $329 w/ free shipping.

Not to mention inflation in the US and less buying power w/ the $US, meaning less money to buy games as it is. Not good at all.

However, I always wait to import DS games from the bargain bin, save for the ones I must play on day 1.

By: Pedro Silva

Pedro Silva — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:40:32 +0000

I noticed, hence why I am currently bankrupt :p

Imported a japanese sealed PSP crisis core edition (retailing at play-asia’s launch price), Tales of Destiny Remake collectors edition and NiGHTS into Dreams with Dream pack.

The two games alone were 1.5 KGs