| coilnightmare said: Piracy is horrible, But let's see it from another perspective... Here, where I live (Brazil), most people buy piracy games. You might ask why people do not buy the original ones. As most of you might know Brazil is a poor country when compared to USA, Japan and most of Europe. It's obviously why lots of people do not buy original products (games and others stuffs). They simply cannot afford. Here, we're usually late when it comes to technology, not only because most of it we import, but also cause taxes are ridiculously high, in some cases, higher than 100%. PS2 is the most used console here cause people cannot buy any of the newer ones. Today, a new PS2 costs 300 dollars. Wii is 750 dollars, ps3 750-1000dollars and xbox360 800 dollars. The prices of the games are also outrageous. Any new game is usually 299reais (160 dollars). Just for you to know, the minimum paid salary is 250 dollars/ month. People kinda consider 1000dollars/ month a good one. You'd have to choose whether you'd prefer to eat or to buy games. I really would like to see everybody buying the games, supporting developers and companies, but how would you do that ? |
I think the best way it could be done is support native Brazillian solutions for consoles. They are expensive because your country has a very stiff import tax of 25% or more on goods. It would be good if your country abolished such archaic tariffs. The other way to do it is to take the Sega model and license the console(s) to Brazilian manufacturers for a small licensing fee - which would allow the console to be much cheaper than it is now.
Likewise, the games are expensive due to your horrible taxation method. If your government changed this, then the prices of games should go down to a much more effective level of 100-150 reais.
The other method is to just buy online PC games that circumvent such taxes. There are many PC games available for $10-$20 (22-30 reais).
Ultimately, and unfortunately, the load of burden is on your governments choices of protectionist policies. I think that console makers should try much harder on working on a Brazillian market, but unfortunately, it's just not big enough to warrant such drastic measures such as licensing a console.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
