(01-14-2017, 11:22 PM)RandomGuy199 Wrote: There are a few reasons.

1- I'm Venezuelan, and the crisis my country has faced for the last four years has made me, and lots of others, slowly slip into poverty. We used to be able to travel abroad, and now we have to use most of our money buying whatever food we can find. Just so you have an idea, a US dollar's real value (the value the government gives has no basis in reality anymore) in Venezuela is about 3,000 bolívares (our currency); the minimum wage is 34,000 bolívares, most of it going towards food (and the prices are so inflated they rise almost every week).

2- Even without that variable, $300 (convert it to my currency if you want. It's depressing, really) is way too much for that type of console (and paying for online play is bullshit).

3- If I had that kind of money, I would buy myself a nice PS4 already. I've been unable to buy a new-gen console due to Reason No.1.

4- Very few people would sell the thing here, as importing stuff has gotten significantly difficult due to, again, Reason No.1. Also, the ones who do sell videogames have to hike the price up in order to turn whatever meager profit they can make (only the ultra-rich can buy that stuff now).

It's a disappointment really (Zelda: Breath of the Wild looks fucking amazing). I have missed three years of this console generation, and will probably have missed it entirely by the time this crisis ends. I'll also have to move in with my aunt in a town near Caracas for university purposes, so... it'll be even harder. Star Wars: Battlefront, Battlefield 1, Uncharted 4... all great games I can't play.

*Drinks whiskey directly from the bottle*

I'm sorry to hear that
*puts Venezuela on the list of destinations, he wants to travel to, even if it is almost impossible, that he will ever reach the destinations, he already planned until now*
I hope the situation will get better and you'll be able to live a not as harsh life as now soon :/

(Again I'm feeling somehow arrogant/snobby. Statistically I'm living in poverty, regarding the fact, I'm living in Germany and it tears me up somehow, that many other regions in the world are just suffering of our globalised, neoliberalistic world, that gives profit maybe for us Europeans and Americans and some Asians, but puts pressure on other states...)

*takes RG's bottle and gives himself a big glass of it, before returning the bottle again*