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So a few minutes ago, I was thinking about the last time I made a guess on how much something cost in Play Coins: The $2.50 Super Mario Maker DLC costing 425 PC. This is how I made the guess:
I started with one of the eShop codes you can get with PC, the $20 one.
$20 = 3400 PC
So by then, I started halving the numbers.
$10 =1700 PC
$5 = 850 PC
$2.50 = 425
And that's how I came to the conclusion that the DLC map was 425 PC. Luckily, I got it for a steal for only 300 PC. I guess it's alright.
A few minutes earlier that that, after a post regarding future Smash characters and a talk about costumes, I headed over to the shop and saw that the costumes were only $0.75. Then I wondered how much that would cost in PC. So again, I used the same formula. But now I had to go further:
$1.25 = 212.5 PC/213 PC
Now my first mistake was rounding to the nearest tenth. But I continued on. So to figure out how much a $0.75, I wanted to figure out how much a quarter is to PC. So I simply divided by 5.
$0.25 = 42.5 PC/43 PC
When 43 was my answer, I wasn't impressed so I went back, divided 212.5 by 5 instead and got 42.5 and then it hit me:
0.25 and 42.5 times 10 is 2.50 and 425.
So basically, if you want to find out how much something cost in PC, this would be the formula:
Let's use a 5 dollar game for this example.
(500/25)*42.5
20*42.5
850
If you don't believe me, check it for yourself on a calculator. The 5 dollar game cost 850 PC, just as I said earlier. As for games that are not a whole number, round it to the nearest tenth and that's your final answer, therefore, a $1.25 game would cost 213 PC.
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N's calculations:
I kinda had this basic conversion in mind a while back:
$1 = 170 PC
I just simply divided the PC cost of a $20 eShop card (3400) by 20, and I got that (thankfully whole number).
Then if I want to find the cost of something, I multiply 170 by the cost of the thing in USD.
So if someone wanted to buy the Mario Maker stage like you said for $2.50, it would be like this:
170(2.50) = 425 PC
General Formula:
Cost in PC = 170(Cost in USD)
And if you want the flipside of it:
Cost in USD = 170/(Cost in PC)
I find this one a lot more simpler to use than the one you came up with, since all you have to do is multiply by 170 and your price is good to go.
I'm hoping a forum moderator like @Marc, @Mikaya, or @SunnyWindy could look at this and maybe pin it for beginners to see. Or maybe I could move or write a similar post in the Welcome section, which they would definitely see.
I started with one of the eShop codes you can get with PC, the $20 one.
$20 = 3400 PC
So by then, I started halving the numbers.
$10 =1700 PC
$5 = 850 PC
$2.50 = 425
And that's how I came to the conclusion that the DLC map was 425 PC. Luckily, I got it for a steal for only 300 PC. I guess it's alright.
A few minutes earlier that that, after a post regarding future Smash characters and a talk about costumes, I headed over to the shop and saw that the costumes were only $0.75. Then I wondered how much that would cost in PC. So again, I used the same formula. But now I had to go further:
$1.25 = 212.5 PC/213 PC
Now my first mistake was rounding to the nearest tenth. But I continued on. So to figure out how much a $0.75, I wanted to figure out how much a quarter is to PC. So I simply divided by 5.
$0.25 = 42.5 PC/43 PC
When 43 was my answer, I wasn't impressed so I went back, divided 212.5 by 5 instead and got 42.5 and then it hit me:
0.25 and 42.5 times 10 is 2.50 and 425.
So basically, if you want to find out how much something cost in PC, this would be the formula:
Let's use a 5 dollar game for this example.
(500/25)*42.5
20*42.5
850
If you don't believe me, check it for yourself on a calculator. The 5 dollar game cost 850 PC, just as I said earlier. As for games that are not a whole number, round it to the nearest tenth and that's your final answer, therefore, a $1.25 game would cost 213 PC.
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N's calculations:
I kinda had this basic conversion in mind a while back:
$1 = 170 PC
I just simply divided the PC cost of a $20 eShop card (3400) by 20, and I got that (thankfully whole number).
Then if I want to find the cost of something, I multiply 170 by the cost of the thing in USD.
So if someone wanted to buy the Mario Maker stage like you said for $2.50, it would be like this:
170(2.50) = 425 PC
General Formula:
Cost in PC = 170(Cost in USD)
And if you want the flipside of it:
Cost in USD = 170/(Cost in PC)
I find this one a lot more simpler to use than the one you came up with, since all you have to do is multiply by 170 and your price is good to go.
I'm hoping a forum moderator like @Marc, @Mikaya, or @SunnyWindy could look at this and maybe pin it for beginners to see. Or maybe I could move or write a similar post in the Welcome section, which they would definitely see.
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But it's a good indicator for when people don't know what price to give something.
