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Insidb on 17 December 2014
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BraLoD said:
Kirin_gaming said:
BraLoD said:


Brazil.
Gotta love gaming here, really.

Both MS and sony should really pay more attention to South America.I recently went to Mexico and realized console prizes were bad,not $1800 bad, but still bad compared to the U.S.

Well, the Kinect XBO was $1100 here, the thing is that Sony still doesn't build them in Brazil so it's all imported and we have stupid (corrupt) laws that overprice imported stuff (a lot) and when it enters here, already very expensive, it's taxed more than guns (not even close to be legal as in US), so we ended up with that shit price.
Not to say games come for $100 and our internet connections are ridiculously slow and expensive as well, and we are not even close to be a rich country with a rich population!

It's basically they trying to say to us: don't buy it, but here it is.
Gladly we have the grey market

And people didn't wanted systems to be heavily pirated here.

This has such massive industrial impact. My company will not sell any of our medical equipment to Brazil, despite it being a huge market, until we can manufacture locally. The tariffs are simply just too imposing, and even establishing a manufacturing facility is quite difficult. I understand the concept, but Brazilians pay quite a hefty price to service it.