RUMOR: UK Gamers to Pay Out the Nose for Rock Band
By Stephany on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 AM PST In Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games, Microsoft, Sony
Rock Band is still not out in Europe and with no official release date in site, one begins to wonder if it will ever release over there at all. However, this does not mean that retailers cannot put a price tag on the highly anticipated game and try to entice gamers to pre-order the item.
Case in point, Scan Computers, an online store in the UK has Rock Band listed for £158.61. Unless Scan has some inside information on what Rock Band will actually cost consumers, you may want to hold off on pre-ordering the game until an official release date is finally confirmed.
Rock Band is listed for £134.99 and if you add in £9.03 for postage, and £25.20 for the value added tax you will end up paying £169.22. Over here in the States, that equals to $337.38. It is a rip-off especially since we only have to pay $169.99 plus tax for it at GameStop. I would highly suggest you go to a gaming store instead once an exact release date and pricing plan is revealed.
According to Amazon (UK), Rock Band is scheduled for release on May 9, but we will be sure to confirm or deny this for you as soon as we get word from the publishers.
Thanks: Strategy Informer
Thanks for the warning/price comparison
In the uk here game companies just switch the $ for the £ and usually add 17.5% extra as vat its really a rip off in this country thank god on steam most games cost £10 or £20 instead of £40 ($80) or £50 ($100)
cheers,
As an Englishman, knowing that we are usually ripped off i had imagined that Rock band would cost around £150 so I’m not surprised. Just as a comparison, Guitar hero 3 cost me £75 when it first came out – the euivelent of $150. Pretty steep hey!