From my one recent trip to England, it seems that quite a lot of things are
priced about numerically the same between there and the US, just change the $
to pd. For your sakes, I hope that works with salaries too :-) But from what
I've read, the UK has some of the higher prices in all of Europe.
As to the original thread, sometimes games come out at introductory prices in
at least a few chains, then are increased. Presumably to generate fast sales
and perhaps word of mouth (net?). As often, they come out at a high price to
take advantage of newness and hype, then trickle down in price as demand
diminishes. Others just ride some constant (usually high) price. Such is
supply & demand and, more often, the whims of marketing. There is no
constitutional right to very low prices on all things at all times (gasoline,
games, cars...). Oops, getting pretty OT. Donning nomex skivvies.