Nintendo on Iceland

[Mundi]

The last recent years being a Nintendo fan on iceland is expensive... very expensive because of the bastard company that has the rights over nintendo products on iceland.
The thing is that most games cost over 5.000 ISK wich is about 36 pounds and the prices havent changed in years!
For example:

Eternal Darkness: Sanity´s Requiem 5988 ISK (43 pounds) and the game came out 2002...
Luigis mansion: 4990 ISK (36 pounds) and it came out 2001
Sonic Adventure 2: 7416 ISK (53 pounds!) Came out in 2002
Sould Calibur 2 5939 ISK (43 pounds)
and one last price i found on a rather bad game that was just plain silly:
Simpsons: Road Rage: 8860 ISK (64 pounds!) and came out 2002
Just a couple of old games, most games are priced at this
And of course there´s always ordering from outside the country but the proplem is it´s a bit of a nuisance if you dont got a credit card and takes a long time but we shouldnt have to order things over shore.....

But one thing ONE thing just really ticked me off! I just found out that this "brilliant" company distrubing (spelled wrong i know)nintendo products here arent getting the DS Lite for about 3 weeks! and the same thing with other stores and it´s most likely going to cost 13,900 ISK (100 pounds) no games including...

Couldnt think of any other place to put this, so sorry if it´s the wrong place

/Rant off

[Shyguy]

ouch, the really does suck.... you should move :)

but yea i dont see why they can take advantage of prices their as they know they will be the only competition in that country

[jakeee]

And I thought Finland was an expensive country :o New games cost about 59€ in Finland which is about £40

[Ninty 182]

Buy your games off ebay and you'll get 'em even cheaper than in any shop mostly - even new sealed games cost about £5-10 less than they will in shops. e.g. Killer 7 new went for £22.

[BeerMonkey]

import/ebay ftw

[Zakatu]

Iceland is gonna be like that though, it is (unfortunately) a very small market. With is it only 250,000 people? alot of cities in other countries have more people than that.

Then theres the isolation, iceland is a long way away from where the games are made.

Lack of competition means less competitive prices, means they won't go down over time.

There isn't really a solution other than moving, i love Iceland though. I went for a week once and thought it was an amazing country:bowdown:

[Fields]

Seriously, you need to move. Iceland is too cold anyway.

[Delhijo]

I want to go to iceland

[Konfucius]

New games cost about 59€ in Finland which is about £40

They also cost that in Austria and Germany although when I order them from amazon they are often 5€ to 10€ cheaper :bouncy: