Latin America: Mexico, Central America, & South America Sales Thread

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marciosmg said:

I read recently a news story (link - http://jogos.uol.com.br/playstation2/ultnot/2008/09/04/ult185u9018.jhtm - it´s in portuguese though).

The highlights:

• It says that Sony is going to officialy start producing PS2 and it´s games in Brazil.
• It also says that they estimate around 8 millions PS2 in my country (both legally bought and pirate ones).
• PS2 is the highest selling console in Brazil (installed base too)
• The estimated production is 450 thousand units in the first year reaching 520 thousand by the third year.
• The investment is a total of 8,8 million reais (~ 5 million dollars)
• It quotes Reggie saying that Brazil could be Latin America´s biggest market (currently, Mexico) if taxes are reduced (currently they make games cost 257% more)

 

Good for my country and good for Sony. I see each time more and more stores advertising the PS2. If Sony can produce things here and dramatically reduce its price they can stop some of the piracy and make a good amount of money.

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That's awesome, thanks for the link.

 

How much is a PS2 gonna cost in Brazil now? I think now it's going for R$400 (U$ 230) or so, maybe they could get it down to R$250-R$350 (U$140 - U$200), maybe even less than that since the PS2 should be cheap to manufacture.

 

If they could sell games for R$30-R$70 (U$17 - U$40) or cheaper, then it would really help against pirated games (usually R$10 - R$ 15).

 

I wonder why they're only doing the PS2 and not the PSP, PS3 or even the PSX at this time.....