While I would love to see the NBN rolled out, I can't believe you guys believe it will happen like they said it will, considering that Telstra is now a partner in it that should show it either wont happen, or itll get done poorly. The internet Filter is unlikely to get passed through also. Out of the 3 parties is probably labour the less of the 3 evils. liberals will try to go backwards instead of forward, labour is useless and the greens just arent capable of running a nation (even though I like bob brown, the party itself is crap) too bad there isnt someone else to vote for.

I'd also like to add I think I speak for most people when I say that I would be pretty content with these sort of sports being released every 2 or 3 years, I don't think anyone would expect a yearly release like EA's big sports games. With the internet on this generations consoles I would be happy enough to get roster updates via patches even if it did cost some money to get it.

I can understand afl and rugby league games are very niche, and even cricket is niche. But Rugby Union is a world wide game, and there is a huge untapped market there. The biggest Rugby playing nations, The UK, France, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and JAPAN!! I think EA is just too American in its approach, if they actually tried and put out a rugby product as good as madden they would sell the products, but they just arent willing to take a risk. It's sad that Jonah Lomu rugby released in 97 is still the best rugby game around...

You also have the fact most games aren't worth paying full price for. If games were cheaper, you would have more people buying a game to try it. but when the games are full price you will have less people risking money on a gamble if the game will be any good or not. You will always have piracy in the industry, but using a common sense approach would help the industry way more than the steps they have been taking over the last decade.

if they charged a reasonable price for games there wouldn't be so many pirated copies around. $100 - $120 for ps3 games are rediculous

mate its really not, check your facts before making yourself look stupid.

I love how they always chuck in the GST as an excuse, The Fact is its only 10% there is no other tax on the items. You look at Europe the taxes Range from 12% opto 22%. The crap about us being tied to the European market some comparativly we are getting a good deal is bullsh*t. It just shows Europe is being ripped off to. Consider you pay from 50 - 70 euros, which is about $80 - $110 Australian, while the Euro is worth more than the American Dollar, and they have a huge market, just shows how we in the Old Pal region just the short end of the stick like usuall.