While many people saw Microsoft’s new wireless racing wheel peripheral and questioned its design (a “double-ended dildo for cyborgs”, as one commenter put it), Microsoft has just announced Australian price and, full kudos to Redmond, Australia isn’t actually getting screwed.
The $US60 peripheral will ship to retailers from September 26, and will have an Australian RRP of… $59.95, or the same figure as the US market. Even factoring in the exchange rate and GST, it seems that for once Australia is on the receiving end of a good deal.
The bigger picture here is that if Microsoft can do it, why the hell can’t everyone else?