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Because charging different countries different amounts of money for the same SKU is illegal in the EU, so instead every country gets its own SKU, and they don't ship to other countries.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/pri...



Huh, interesting, thanks for that. But then why don't we get different SKUs of PS4/Xbox and others between EU member states? Or do we?


If the pricing is different its very likely you do, its just minor things changed nobody ever notices.


Someone else mentioned keyboard localization - I guess with gamepads instead of keyboards, all localization is software-based




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