Well i'm from brazil, and as i said on the other thread there is no official market for consoles here.
Brazil has 180million citzens, but due to extreme disparity on the income, not even half of the population could afford a game console, but that still leaves quite a big chunk when compared with another small contries from europe for exemple.
But the reason there is no official market here is because of piracy, so every console or game we buy here come from the us, europe or japan, normally from the us.
But even if original software doesn't sell much here, the consoles are quite popular, there are no official numbers, but the snes was big some years ago, every body had one, and they weren't that expensive, and you can still find people buying ps1 and games somewhere. But now the ps2 is the one that sells most, of course everybody only buys piracy games, but i believe there are at least 1million ps2 here, but i believe it could be around 2 million.
The gameboy color or advance also sells pretty well, due to piracy again, i believe there is a big number of gameboys out there.
But game consoles that are harder to mod and harder to find pirate games are really rare around here.
I live in a small city of 300mil hab, and i only know about 1 guy with a ps3, and i have a wii, but even on bigger cities, like sao paulo or rio de janeiro, its just people who are really into gaming that buy expensive consoles and original games.
As i posted on the other topic the prices here for imported consoles are the following
Old gen:
Gamecube = 500 reais = 200 dollars
Ps2 already modded with 10 pirate games = 800 reais = 300 dollars
Gamecube game = 150 reais = 60 dollars
Ps2 pirate game = 10 reais = 4 dollars
Next Gen:
Wii = 1200 reais = 500 Dollars
X360 = 1500 reais = 600 Dollars
Ps3 = 2500 reais = 1100 dollars
Wii games = same as Gamecube
X360 and ps3 games = 250 reais = 100 dollars
Portable:
Ds = 500 reais = 200 dollars
Psp = 900 reais = 350 dollars
So as a poor country, people are able to pay 300 dollars for a playstation, but its impossible to buy the games for most people, that is why only consoles with pirates games sell around here, and that is why there is no official market.
On the PC side there are officially launched here pc games, when brand new they retail for 99 reais, around 40 dollars, which is a good price, and when old they become really cheap, so some people buy original pc games, since they arent so expensive, but it is really hard to track down any numbers about it.
The most successful game ever - The Sims 2 PC - 100k....
