Arm not required: Rock Band price cut in Europe, will only cost leg now

This should come as great news to all those Europeans who were going to hold out because of the insanely high original price.

There WERE Europeans who held out because of the insanely high original price... right?

I'm sure that many other comments will bash the s**t out of the pricing/timing. I'd like to as well, but I decided to do a bit of math to back up my claims.

If I were to import the Wii version from Gamestop...

$169 for the game
$45.98 for shipping/handling

$215.98 total.

Unfortunately, the £'s been weakening against the dollar over the last 2 months (check out http://finance.google.com/finance?q=gbpusd), so anyone who still thinks £1 = $2 is sorely mistaken. It's actually closer to £1 = $1.75 :-(

So $215.98 -> £123.42

Add customs/VAT @ 17.5% (£21.60), and it'll cost me (roughly) £145.02 to self-import a copy of Rock Band from the US. RRP for the band pack + game is £149.98.


I reserve the right to say "F**k you EA!"... just more quietly than I would have liked to...

Play.com have been selling it for £100 + £40 for the game since launch and thats still too expensive for me.

Great headline Alexander!

I imported Rock Band for PS3 long ago so I no longer care (and it only came to £145, cheaper than it would be anyway...).

But please Harmonix, hurry up and release RB2 here.. if you don't I won't be able to buy the patch to put RB1 songs across.

Rock Band: Rick Allen Edition?

how do they come up with these things

Can they please release Rock Band in some form in Australia and New Zealand?

Just hold out for the N64 version, I'm sure it won't be as expensive!