Will the Switch do well in Brazil?

[Nautilus]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Nautilus said:

No, I don't think it would. Physical sales, even buying through the internet, you can easily find them for around 300 to 350 BRL.

Where? I browser games on Mercado Livre every week. Good Luck finding Animal Crossing for less than 400 BRL there, or Mario Kart 8 or BOTW for less than 380

I only find games for 300 BRL on very obscure Facebook selling groups. Maybe minor game releases like Astral Chain we can find for 320-340 BRL, but really big blockbusters? 

As for eshop, Switch is not Steam, its shop is not region lock, that's the problem. If they go aggressive on pricing digital store (let's say 200 BRL) they will register a much more massive loss because elsewhere people will just change their regional eshop to buy in BR eshop 

Took me 1 minute to find Animal Crossing for about 385 BLR on Mercado Livre. And as you said, if you spend enough time, you can find it for even cheaper.

And if you live in places like Sao Paulo, there are the Grey Market that, fi you go to such places, you can easily find Switch games that can range from 200 BLR( older titles and less popular ones) to 320 (Recently Released and Popular games).

Regarding the eshop, that's why I said "If Nintendo wants to be aggressive", which obviously implies a will by Nintendo to implement some attractive regional pricing. Having said that, it's not like the digital prices differ that much from the competitors. And considering that every now and then Nintendo do have a sale on it's biggest games(and that the person who buys a Switch isn't exactly poor) a 40% off Mario Odyssey or a 40% off XC 2 isn't that expensive.

And I think you overestimate the number of people that changes region to take advantage of that, and the overall impact on said business. Steam does that(Epic too) and they are still going strong.Don't get me wrong, Nintendo won't do that(due to numerous reasons), but it's not that big of a deal, the same way that piracy dosen't have nearly the same effect as people say it does.

Edit: Heh, just did a little more digging, and found an offer on Mercado Livre for 370 BLR.