| Zappykins said: Not sure what you are refering to in Brazil, you must have missed Ethomaz thread. Curren the Xbox One is $833 US dollars less expensive than the PS4. The PS4 R$3.999 thats $1,833, Xbox ONE R$2.200 = $1,008 USD. I assume the price will drop by approximately 40% or so when they Brazil manufactured ones hit the market. Sony started making PS3's there in 2011. I'm sure they will eventually, but right now ALL PS4's are made in China. They aren't even making them in Japan. Note: the USA has similar protectional tarrifs on sugar and corn, which is why they put high fructose corn syrup in everything. Cause the taxes on sugar and the subsidies for corn adjust the prices. |
I meant the Xbox One in brazil is more expensive than the ones in other nations by far.
Sony probably only manufactured PS3's in Brazil because of taxes and not because of the efficiency of the manufacturing industry in Brazil. This is bad from a global perspective because for one it encourages similar policies by other nations, the local industry now has less reason to become more efficient to compete, foreign manufactures lose business despite being better at it and the Brazillian PS4 gamers now have to pay more because their local and less efficient industry has a monopoly.
And yes the tariffs that the USA has are harmfull to the Brazil export industry, along with many other nations, and all they do is allow for inneficient industries in local nations to aviod competing with competitive ones overseas. Brazil should be looking to reduce the barriers to manufactuing locally rather than slapping taxes on imports. But other nations can always add more sadly.
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