Brasil Sales Rankings - March 2014

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justiceiro said:

BeElite said:

justiceiro said:

In the wake of brazillian market as the fourth country in the world in gaming market, and fifth in consoles alone(take that, random europe first world country), it's time to start track down this sales.

Got any proof of that ? 

Last year, we had during the BGS (Brasil Game Show- "Brazillian E3") a presentation made by Oliver Römerscheidt, from GFK, the same one that provides the UK chart every week. He stated that, in video games, we alreadly surpassed UK, Spain and Gemany( we are still losing for France). Its important to remark: we are talking about money alone, not units. So, if we consider that the  average game in europe cost €50 and in brazil its cost €60, we should consider that there is a chance that this number is not exactly straight foward.

Another point: this data is from september 2013. The consoles launched in november potentialy revitalizated the market in europe to some extent in some countries. But this not necessarily applies to brazil, since the cost of then are still too high(ps4:US$1900, X1: US$900).

Sources:

http://www.arkade.com.br/bgs-2013-pesquisa-lista-10-jogos-mais-vendidos-brasil-2013/

http://www.kotaku.com.br/bgs-2013-faturamento-mercado-brasil/

Tracking sales in Brazil is quite complicated, since a big part of the videogame sales there are imports.

We could say that a small part of the North American market is, in fact, Brazilian, since most of those imports come from the USA, but it´s difficult to track exactely how much.

Another problem is that there´s A LOT of piracy here. Many of those hardware sold are modified, specially Wii, Xbox360, DS, to be used with copycat games, so while the hardware sales are probably bigger (in money, due to excessive cost) than some European countries, official software sales are still lower than them.