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Johnw1104 said:
Swordmasterman said:

300US$ was = 540-560R$ 2-3 years ago.

Are there tariffs or something in place in Brazil, or is that common in South America?

I remember seeing duty-free Wii U games in an airport in Ecuador that were 2 years old and still going for about $80+, blew my mind. It's a shame accessibility is more difficult for a lot of the world :

I don't know about other countries, but Argentina and Brazil have a lot of tax. The PS4 launched  for 1800-2100US$ on Brazil, over 1000-1200US$ on Argentina, if I remember well.

Argentina had problems with the government of Cristina Kirchner, and Brazil had problems with the corruption of the country's biggest company, which had over half of the congress and over half of the senate involved.

The Oil price drop + the increase in the price of the US$ WW + the corruption of the countries make it difficult to purchase consoles.