Kasz216 said:
huaxiong90 said:
Kasz216 said:
"American point of view"?
I'm talking about what people in Brazil tell me... and what i've read from Brazil.
So it's a Brazillian point of view.
The market is all blackmarket and piracy because the prices are too high. Occasionally with buying a console from the stores at full price then hacking it.
Example article I just found
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26645/Analysis_Inside_Brazils_Video_Game_Ecosystem.php
Apparently Brazil USED to be a great place to buy games... till the prices went all insane. Now it's just buy the consoles and piracy. How do you stop piracy? By offering software at a price that people want to buy it at. How do you raise piracy, by having unreasonable prices that people aren't going to buy it at. It's that simple.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_201/6059-A-Nation-of-Pirates
Intersetingly they have different numbers money wise then the Per Capita GDP... and hilarious alarmism.
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That's still technically an "American" point of view. 
O-)
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Yeah, the actual from Brazil people i've talked too aren't quotable articles... but actual people.
Who used to be on this site. Heck, I'm sure if any brazilians were walking by they'd back me up. Though I'm sure they tend to avoid piracy threads... because everyone pirates... pretty much because they have too... thanks to their dumb government.
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just ignore him. when talking abotu money and poor people you get idiots. they will talk about poor people like INSANE poor, like they don't even have electricity or television. Well no shit they aren't going to save up for a ps3 if they don't even have a tv.
Remember in order to have a ps3, you need a TV and electricity. so before you start thinking about how poor some family is and how exagerated you want your story to be, remember for them to even consider a ps3, they first need a tv adn electricity. bringing up anyone who does not have both is pointless. thats like someone bitching abou the price of gas who doesn't own a car.
