Strittan
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Alright, makes sense then.The answer is somewhere between "slightly" and "no, actually".
Exchange rates, distribution/shipping from point of manufacture, taxes (big one, particularly between the USA and Scandinavia) and marketing costs will all add up to make selling it in one territory significantly more expensive than selling it in another. And Sony may not even be making money on the console - which is fairly typical.
Sweden has a sales tax of 25%. Some US states have a sales tax of 0%. So a $400 console in any 0% sales tax US state is immediately a $500 console in Sweden in order for Sony to make the same margins - and the $100 difference goes straight to your exchequer. You can probably add an import duty onto that and then remember that Sony pays 50% of employee salaries to Sweden's treasury, before any corporation tax is levied. The difference in taxation alone makes that $400 product cost over $600...