| honestysims said: Are there any brazilian gamers that want to get PS4s for a lower price? Or anyone would like to distribute PS4s in South American countries? Please let me know.. |
Well, everyone wants for a lower price, but sorry, i didn't get your second question. The thing is: paraguay is a well know route to traffic imported products for brazil, videogames included. Paraguay have really low taxes for importing eletronics, and since the fiscalization is weak(police only care to find drugs), is possible to get a good amount of product for a much lower price($1000 minimun for ps4).
This don't mean that people here will boycot the console totally. Some of us will get the console at launch. 7 year ago, prior to the launch of ps3, when "real" still worth more than today(R$ 1,41 - US$ 1), a online retalier started to sell the console at R$ 7890(the 20GB version, that costed US$499 in eua). 2 weeks later - sould out. Problably because the low amount out there, but yet, someone bought.
About football(soccer for USA :P), PES still strong around here, they have more licenses than fifa, and fifa never really dominate here. If you don't play football game here: most of gamer will see you like a alien.
One thing about our market you have to know: most of us can only afford 4-3 title a year, and here console wtill are seen as a child toy. Taxes for software and hardware have subidise around here, but since games are classified like toys, the difference between pc and console prices goes up to 35%. The ads around here goes worse that this. In march i saw a wii(not wiiu) tv ad. The would you like to play wii ad. The same from 8 years ago. In cable TV. The only videogame tv spot i saw in the whole year. In 2012 i saw a AC3 ad in open tv channel and a 3ds ad in cable channel. This mean that the games around here are more, more associated with brand, and word-of mouth in general. That why the only new ip in the chart are the last of us
Yet, Ubisoft is the best publisher in the country, all games translated, cheaper games at launch, so their game are aways in top.
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