There are already 3 relevant to the person you quoted:
Bring favorable regional pricing (for Turkey and others)
Add regional pricing for Turkey
Local Pricing for the Republic of Turkey and Turkish Lira Support

My country (Mexico) has regional pricing.

But Activision, Blizzard, Sega (with Yakuza), and EA refuse to adjust their prices so they show me the same prices Americans get.

And I will continue to demand we get fair pricing for my region until it happens.

I have nearly 600 games here, many of them have been purchased during deep discounts because they had a good regional price and I wanted to support the practice. But I guess the companies above don't understand that it's better to get two or three sales at a discount than none at all. Especially in places like my country where I can just buy a USB with dozens of games for less than five dollars.

They blame my country's high rate of piracy on us, the consumers, instead of the high prices they impose on us.

Most definitely.
Though if you look at it, that video they made back then actually bashed the concept of increased prices in the EU, not necessarily of regional pricing in general, saying nothing about lower prices. But of course, while they miss discounts for India or Turkey or sometimes Mexico as those who complain keep pointing out, nobody seems to forget to set those same EU prices they were so correctly lashing out against, even for non-Euro countries like Romania and Bulgaria, or even for non-EU countries like Serbia, who get to pay the same as, say, Germany or France, and more than the US or Norway...

Regional pricing always seems to be unfair to those who live in rich regions, but is imperative to those who live in poor countries.

I too would prefer if it was the "one world one price" again, but I can understand why some people could nto afford any games then.

Does regional pricing exist when it comes to fuels, food, etc? Honest question.

food and energy are the best examples for regional pricing, so .. Most definitly, yes.

Fuel costs a lot more in my region than it does in other countries around us. Don't ask me for the reasons. Our high prices are partially caused by the tourism.
The normal price for regional milk is about 1.30€ per liter.

Fuel however has also to do with how the world market works: We currently pay about 1.9€ for 1 liter of gasoline while in the US you only half of that. Part of the reason is that you can only buy oil in USD. 20 years ago an attempt was made to open a second oil trading platform in EUR, but that the gulf war put an end to that. So whoever wants to buy oil, must buy $ first which brings a lot of money into the US. They don't have these additional costs, can afford cheap gasoline.



Oh, I forgot:
Even within the EU the prices vary. My region exports choccolate (Loacker), wine, apples and so on to other countries.
The "fun" thing about that is, that they cost less when bought in Germany than when you buy them in local stores in the region which they were produced.

But you are talking about a whole different thing, now.

This is macro economy, this is US doing its shennanigans, you are talking about the extracost of moving goods, etc. But it has nothing to do with the regional pricing as we know it in the videogames´ market.

Interesting question. It's so hard to say as a lot of the price differential for essentials is based on taxation, production and transport costs. e.g. you would expect fuel to be cheaper in Texas and Saudi than you would in France as they basically just pump it out of the ground, refine it and put it in a petrol station. Equally, food has lower transport costs where it is produced (but is also influenced by wages and input costs).

Regional pricing seems to be more a thing for entertainment luxury items (also impacted by taxation). E.g. books vary in price around the world more than the transport cost would imply as do DVDs/blu ray films.

I think a lot of the regional pricing in the video games industry was set to discourage piracy in jurisdictions where copyright tends to not be respected or people are poorer. e.g. pre 2022 Russia tended to get low prices because piracy in that market was very high. Plus, it was a weaker economy with less disposable income.

He did ask about foods, so that's what I answered too.

You should read my post again. The same goods produced in our region cost more in our region than they cost outside. So where are the extravagant transport costs? Why are they not more expensive outside?
I'm not talking about some occasions, but about the regular prices.

And about the oil: Just wanted to explain partially how the big price difference can happen.

But let's look at music CDs (on amazon.xx). I keep buying them in Germany, because in Italy they are way too expensive, often cost three times more. If you want to look at digital goods, mp3s cost more on amazon.de than on amazon.it.

In short: Yes, the same product can cost mor in one country than it does in other countries, according to what people are willing to pay for it or what is to be promoted.
You find regional pricing wherever you look with not many exceptions.