| TheSource said: I stickied this thread so that we can explain why 'Americas' != USA or even USA+Canada. Keep the articles coming. But the main point is this: Latin America is tiny compared to Japan/USA/Europe for videogame sales, and most software is pirated. So while hw is taken into account for places like Mexico & Argentina...sw is largely negligible compared to other regions. |
Yeah,you're very right @The Source,even more if you consider that many hardware units that had been sold on Mexico are taken like USA sales,because many Mexican's online stores sells imported systems which have already been counted as sales in the USA,this practices are very common to avoid taxes under the NAFTA treatment.Only grand stores declares hardware and software sales,like Sam's Club,Blockbuster,Liverpool,Palacio de Hierro and GamePlanet(The major chain videogaming stores here in Mexico),but a major of the legal sales are from online stores.
This is why we can't see the true Mexico's potential in the games industry,the third gaming market on the continent,just under EUA and Canada.This kind of commercial practices and the piracy mess so much with my country's market.
