I feel you Fredrik, I live in Sweden too and my pre-order is on the standard for 5999SEK which is = 683,44 USD. Isn't this largely due to our VAT + tax for electronics (kemikalieskatt) which was implemented not so long ago and also retailers taking their cut? It sucks and Sony raising their prices for first-party games is bad.
And Series X at 3899DKK which is closer to 500€ (always taking into account the Denmark's crazy high VAT).Elgiganten in Denmark are selling with these prices
here is the Xbox Series S in the same store.
Jävla lyxhobby :(I feel you Fredrik, I live in Sweden too and my pre-order is on the standard for 5999SEK which is = 683,44 USD. Isn't this largely due to our VAT + tax for electronics (kemikalieskatt) which was implemented not so long ago and also retailers taking their cut? It sucks and Sony raising their prices for first-party games is bad.
Demon's Souls at Spelbutiken is at 848 SEK = 96,63 USD
Nordisk Film distributes Playstations across nordics and offers customer support.
If you correctly account for taxes, the eu price is actually CHEAPER
Det är sjukt. Hopefully, third-party publishers don't take after Sony with raising prices on their games. Take-Two already has. I wonder if the retailers would start undercutting each other a bit if these games don't fly off the shelves.
they're sony's distributor in sweden. still, this has more to with taxes than with nordisk film
This always happens. If you bought the digital edition ps5 you'll be fucked though. That extra 1000 kronor for the disc reader is going to get recouped before too long
That might unfortunately be some wishful thinking. If the big pubs do it AND the platform does it? Then what hope do we have? Maybe indies will stick to their pricing models (more or less), but the big players are the ones that kind of take the PR hit so that everyone else can follow suit.
Weird and hidden, but it's there. (3899)I only get this page
Xbox Series X og Series S | Elgiganten
Xbox Series X og Series S - nogle af de hotteste konsoller er endelig tilgængelige på markedet.www.elgiganten.dk
That doesn't explain the price difference though. VAT here is 21% while in Sweden VAT is 25%. That's not much higher yet the price is €75 more. So the answer isn't in the taxes.
Sorry, but my pedantry is not letting you away with the Sweden and EU gaffe, and the fact you put the € sign after the amount, but not with the dollar,🤪
That is the Konsolinet price right? Let's see what verkkokauppa will have
That's because it varies even on a per-city basis. Sales tax in the US is anywhere from 0% to 10.25% (yikes, Chicago). Makes adding the sales tax to item prices pretty much impossible for marketing.
Gigantti was 529€, that's where I ordered. And I think verkkokauppa also has same price.
I only get this page
Xbox Series X og Series S | Elgiganten
Xbox Series X og Series S - nogle af de hotteste konsoller er endelig tilgængelige på markedet.
This is probably off-topic, but why is this even a thing in the US? Why no federal sales tax? I don't know a single European country that has varying sales taxes on a state/county/city level. It's just so bizarre.
lol you got ripped off haha
Oh ok. I had checked earlier yesterday where it was still at EUR 600
This is not true, you dont think other countries have taxes? Just look at the netherlands, similiar tax rates, yet the PS5 is 499€.
The price will be 3899 DKK, the Microsoft store has it up for that and pre-orders start on the 22nd:
not many other countries have a tax on chemicals in electronic products, which works out at over €10 per kg of console
At the airport a single sandwich costs 10EUR lol. It was somewhere in central Stockholm in a mini supermarket. I have no doubt I got ripped off haha, but you get ripped off in every country's busiest areas and that was still more expensive than usual. Anyway, this is all a bit off-topic, and for sure doesn't make Sweden-ERA feel better for the whole situation...
