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Swordmasterman said:
invetedlotus123 said:

In Brazil we can bring 500 USD with us whitout paying taxes if we travel through air, and we can buy 500 USD more at the free shop in the airport (most of the time those shops are extremely overpriced and it's better to buy in a regular shop, even with taxes). Brazil has a love case with consoles, ps2 is estimated to have sold around 8 million units here even whitout an official release. Our gaming scenario really improved at the 7th gen, games got much cheaper and the prices got desatached from the US pricing. Some games already passef the one million mark here, (ok, it was PES and counting all platforms, but anyway). It's a healthy market I can say, at least nowadays. Those OTHER markets are fundamental for the industry growth, with Japanese market only shrinking by the day there's a point where you can milk North America and Europe. 

The gaming market don't rely on a single market, even if something like the USA or Japan stop purchasing games, the market would continue, but at a very slow pace.

But Western Europe, Japan and North America are the bigger drivers of the market, the console market anyway. Just compare the numbers here in VgChartz with the Rest of the World Region compared to the others. VGchartz isn`t very reliable, but it`s the source of info we have.