Sony says PlayStation dominates the market in Brazil (with numbers)

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Dark_Feanor said:

RafaelOrix said:

Lol that was funny and unexpected, I didn't know you were from Brasil. Yeah, I agree with you, this comment is... very strange, to say the least. I usually see people taking bus and walking around here with a PSP, iPhone or DS on their hands.

I have 3 friends, 1 with a PSP and 2 with DS, they NEVER play out of home or college. I Never listen to my iPod Touch eather.

 

So, violence is clearly a reason handhelders are not so popular in Brasil.

What about the numbers, I used to imagine that there would be 10-15mi PS2 in Brasil, 95% of then "jailbreacked". In fact I`ve never seen a original PS2 game or blocked console.

The same thing was in corse whit 360. But now Live is getting stronger and PS3 faces a real competition by Microsoft.

And Nintendo, hunn... I just have to say that Wii games are more expencive here than PS3 or 360 games. Its a lost market for Nintendo by now. 

People won't walk around with them but you can see them being used in buses as me and a few others pointed out. Who walks around on the street playing a handheld anyway?

Violence may have a small impact, but it's nothing important. Besides, small things are even easier to import (and get pass withouth being checked and taxed) so the difference in price may be even higher between import and retail. It's also not so expensive so people have more confidence in buying it from a not-so-trusted source. All in all there are many possible explanations for the numbers of portables here, and violence's a really not a good one.

Most people do hack their consoles, but it's not that hard to find people with non-hacked consoles either. I think maybe this has to do with location too, as Brazil is pretty big and diverse.

The Wii situation is indeed funny, but they too could grow a nice market with some effort and incentive as Sony is doing. Of course it's harder for them since they don't have the network already in place.