| torok said: The sales here are even higher. All three consoles are sold officially (only 360 is made here, but the others are official too), but a lot of minor resellers and web sites simply import the consoles illegally, without taxes, and sell it way cheaper. These sales are counted in their original countries (probably USA), and they are pretty high. A official PS3 costs R$ 1200~1400 while the unofficial ones cost R$ 700~900.The same happens with 360 and Wii.
Tectoy is a brazilian company and were the Sega partner in Brazil. They brougth the Master System in 1989 to here. The good reception made Tectoy bring Genesis in 1990. These consoles were fabricated here and several games were translated (Phantasy Star as one). In Master System case, the support from Sega was limited, since Sega dropped it with Genesis' launch. But Tectoy ported several Game Gear titles, like Sonic Chaos and Sonic Blast. Besides that, they even created some games, modding (with authorization, of course) Wonder Boy to create a game with the "Monica's Gang", a local comic book. They even developed a version of Street Fighter 2 from scratch using a 8 Mb cartridge, that only works in Brazilian systems (the normal Master is limited to 4 Mb cartridges).
All these consoles were fabricated in Brazil. Tectoy fabricated the Saturn and Dreamcast too. Nintendo, feeling the advances of Sega, made a deal with Gradients to produce the SNES and N64 here. When the PS1 arrived, it was imported and not sold officially (all sales were registered in other regions) and crushed the competition, ending the production of consoles here, until the X360. |
thanks, interesting read! i once found sf2 at a rom-collection for the master system and so started looking for it and found out that brazil was somehow special in terms of gaming :)
so producing the consoles in brazil is helping the consoles in success?
