Are European PS3 owners getting Ripped off?

[ryan2006]

thats the reason i havent bought one because amrica and japan get it soo much cheaper but europe is soo expensive and now sony take the piss not wanting you to import and pay an extra £100 on their emotionless ps2 ps3.

[bpatel4069]

YES, WE ARE GETTING RIPPED OFF, im from uk, and i think by now ive got used to the fact that we get treated like a bunch of pillacs! i had to import my psp aswel, and im glad for that, i thank krishna for ebay!! YES!!!

[xg917]

um, dont they need to make PAL version demos in order for them to play on European PS3s...? cuz jap and US ps3s play NTSC..?

[Basil Zero]

Ughh, messed up, sony's reputation lowers once again!

[Cenn]

1. 90% of the replies in this thread have nothing to do with the first post.

2. the first post was written by someone who has no idea what he is talking about. did you know that europe got the Super-Rub-a-Dub game first, before
any other area? does he know that the japanese only got Flow a week ago?
this has nothing to do with europe. sometimes europe gets the good stuff first.

[darknight88]

Cant PAL ps3 owners just make an account with US info to access crap from the USA store? USA gamers make JAP accounts to DL stuff from stuff exclusive to japanese shop. Just my 2 cents...

[ab88]

1. 90% of the replies in this thread have nothing to do with the first post.

2. the first post was written by someone who has no idea what he is talking about. did you know that europe got the Super-Rub-a-Dub game first, before
any other area? does he know that the japanese only got Flow a week ago?
this has nothing to do with europe. sometimes europe gets the good stuff first.

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You are right Sony is just releasing all the stuff equally everywhere, no one should be offended or angry.

On a serious note I would feel ripped off for getting like 95% of the stuff late and in crappier packages in most cases.

[mikebeaver]

Basically I can buy a Hong Kong region PS3, it will have the emotion engine in it, will only be 300 pounds and maybe a little more for postage, all the games are universal so that doesnt matter and then i can have all the recentdonloads etc from the asian store.
The UK and european prices are a joke, this is why Nintendo and the Wii are doing so well, the console is cheap, the games are new and inovative and those on the VC (Virtual Console) are usually of high quality and no left out from the NTSC releases, although certain games may only get a foreighn release there are other platforms and wys of playing these on the Wii.Sony need to think of th euro market as a VERY important place, those who disregar it will ultimately fail!

[El Stefio]

Basically I can buy a Hong Kong region PS3, it will have the emotion engine in it, will only be 300 pounds and maybe a little more for postage, all the games are universal so that doesnt matter and then i can have all the recentdonloads etc from the asian store.

That's all well and good, but isn't the PS2 part of the PS3 region locked... making your emotion engine completely useless if you're after playing your old PAL PS2 games....?

[Milleniumas]

first of all Dollar is not = Euro . Hey what a great strategy sony has! They sell cheaper on US and Japan and in return they rip off Europe for price and returns money for selling cheaper PS3 in US and Japan