BraLoD said:
OneKartVita said:
So are you guys saying that sony now produce the Ps4 in Brazil for the Brazilians but it still costs double the x1? |
No.
The PS4 was almost double the XBO price at launch, until before Sony finally started to build it here, while MS has been doing it all along.
Now both are pretty close on price, you can find one cheaper than the other in different places, but I believe the official price tag is still a little lower to the XBO than the PS4.
Than you have the grey market, that is still considerably cheaper to get any of them, specially the PS4, that goes from a little over the XBO official to usually a little lower than it in the grey market, both are close stuff both ways, though.
As a note:
Even on the grey market the consoles are still higher in price than the biggest chunck of the population can afford to pay, though, so you can imagine the official prices don't really attrack that much atention, mostly just to people wanting to make the safest purchase.
Gaming on current gen here is still really expensive, the drop on our currency value due to the internal crisis may mask it at some extent nowdays, but if you go back to when the consoles launch the XBO launch price was over USD $1000 (PS4 almost 2000). Now the comparative price dropped a lot due to the drop of the value of our currency as I just mentioned, but it's still as hard as that to get one here, actually even worse, as people are now in need to save more and spend less, and paying USD 1000 was already way harder here than in US, as our per capita income is WAY lower than in the US.
I was checking PSN yesterday after a long time without logging in there and I see now games are priced at BRL 280 there at launch, it was around BRL 150 last gen to BRL 200 tops and it was expensive as fuck to get it by that price before, then it raised to BRL 250 and now BRL 280 apparently, so you can imagine sales here are not very high no matter how you look at them.
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