Staring into the abyss of a world where Nintendo has no games scheduled for release. Edit: The Time of Darkness Has Arrived

[IcaroRibeiro]

Hiku said:

Jeez, that's rough. I remember calculating my daily wage at an average job I took up temporarily some years back, and it was about $60 per day (more than that if you count taxes), so I thought of it as one videogame per day.

If a game costs a whole months salary, how do people do it?

As you can see by the dreadful sales of our market, most Brazilian just don't do it, unless it's a free PC game, those are really popular

Console games are something a bit more restricted for middle and upper middle class families. My office pays in line with most people with bachelor degree, which is around 2 to 4 times the minimum wage, so gaming is a luxury we can afford (if we don't have a children to spend on of course)

Also companies generally adjust some of their products prices like Sony and Xbox games have lower prices here after some months of their release, same for steam games. Spotify subscription is just 4 dollars, and Netflix 6 dollars. Nintendo don't have official physical stores here hence their physical copies are all imported, neither lower the prices of their digital games too much (if they did so, everyone would just change their online store to here)

To understand this better: While we can buy a physical copy of the PS4 version of Dragon Quest XI for 160 RS (about 32 USD), the same game on Switch can be as high as 340 RS (68 USD)  

In fact, I see many stores selling Link's Awakening, Smash Bros and Mario Odyssey for 400 RS (78 USD)