Piracy isn't an excuse, it's the reality here. Things got better (PS2 was 98% piracy, now it's more like 50% with current gen). It's hard to see unlocked PS3s, because they require you to download the games and out in an external HDD. Downloading 5~50GB here is pretty hard, because of the limited bandwidth available. I know only one person that has an modded PS3.
X360, PS2 and Wii piracy is way bigger. It's easy to find modded consoles and you can buy games recorded in DVD-Rs for R$ 10 to R$ 20, opposed to original games costing R$ 80 to R$ 200 (USS 1 = R$ 2). A lot of people went to PS2 to X360 because of this. The difference in price on consoles isn't importante when you have this huge difference in game prices (original/pirate). The PS3s mods are worse too, not allowing to use PSN and having problems with firmware upgrades. X360 more recent mods don't have serious problems with upgrades and still allow to use XBox Live without problems.
I'm not supporting this piracy (all my PS3/Vita games are original, by the way). I'm just reporting what I see in a daily basis to allow everyone to have a better perpective of what happens outside of the NA/EU/Japan regions. The situation is improving, of course, it's easier to find original games with better prices and in all stores (during PS2 era, it was harder because of the piracy), the prices are better and all console makers have a stronger presence with services, translated games and marketing here (like old Sega days when consoles were made here and we had marketing campaigns and translated games).
man-bear-pig said:
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I'm from Brazil too, and it says exactly what ethomaz is saying. MS and Sony are almost tied now.
