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Roderic_Blackwood on 24 August 2016
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Nautilus said:
Roderic_Blackwood said:

Sorry dude, I'm not rich. I'm in the middle class, I'm a worker. I hate those stereotypes that says that Mexicans are either super poor or filthy rich. Yes, we have them but we have a proper worker class as well: you work, you save money and you buy a Wii U or a PS4 or a PSVR or a PC for gaming, we're not that different from the rest of the world. And of course countries like the US  has more income than us but that doesn't mean companies like Sony are going to say "Hey, let's completely avoid the Mexican market because they're not as rich as the US citizens are". They just adapt to the market, put their systems on sell accoding with the economic reality of the countrie and voila!. Like XBOX which has in Mexico their biggest market in the world after the US, Microsoft sells more Xbox Ones here than in England or Germany.

I never said you were rich.I said that you probably belonged to the richer part of the society.There is a big, even if subtle, difference there.But that still dosent change the fact that videogames in general are a luxury.Sure you can save and buy your PS4, Wii U and what not, but you only do that because you put value on it.For a family that has only casual gamers, its still a big investment to put down the equivalent of 300 dollars plus all the games, acessories and everything else on something that is not necessary to survive or you dont fully enjoy, especially when you dont have much money to waste.And that would be especially true to VR devises, that has the equivalent of at least of 800 dollars of investment to use!If thats already expensive for a country such as US or a continent such as Europe, imagine for a country with much lower purchase power as Mexico.

I dont know where you got your data about the Xbox, but you cant just "adapt" in the sense you are implying.You cant just lower a system that costs $250 to make and lower to lets say $150 to the mexican matket and have profit with it.I mean, that beyond obvious.Products have their prices for a reason and the production costs(and shipments) dont magically lower when you move to a different country.I cant even believe i need to sau this.

And im not saying (nor the other guy) that VR cant sell there.Its just going to sell wayyyyy less than in the bigger markets.And not trying to piss on Mexico, thats simply how things are.

Yes, you can adapt, for example Microsoft have factories in Mexico and Brazil so it's way cheaper to buy an Xbox One (made in Mexico) than a PS4 (made in China), XBox One is relatively cheap here. And I'm not saying that we're going to buy more PSVR systems than in the US, it's impossible but that doesn't mean that we're not a good market for them.